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Re: poor performance with ath5k; reverting to ath_pci

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On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 07:22:14PM +0100, Stefanik Gábor wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:14 PM, John W. Linville
> <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:38:08PM -0500, Glenn Burkhardt wrote:
> >> On Friday 16 January 2009 10:33:13 Bob Copeland wrote:
> >> > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Glenn Burkhardt
> >> >
> >> > <gbburkhardt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > > ath5k_pci 0000:00:07.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
> >> > > ath5k_pci 0000:00:07.0: registered as 'phy0'
> >> > > phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid'
> >> >
> >> > Can you change the rate control algorithm to minstrel and retry?
> >>
> >> I built a 2.6.28.1-9 kernel to get the minstrel code for ath5k.  The
> >> kernel for Suse 11.1 is 2.6.27.7-9.  But that means that more could have
> >> changed besides the rate control code.
> >>
> >> It looks like minstrel and pid give about the same result, a bit worse that
> >> the ath_pci driver right now.  Performance seems to vary from day to day.
> >> I'll experiment some more, and switch transmission channels.  I'm not getting
> >> the really poor performance with ath5k right now.
> >>
> >> I haven't looked yet - is there a way to switch to 'pid' rate control without
> >> rebuilding the kernel?
> >
> > If you configure your kernel to include multiple rate control
> > algorithms then you can use the 'ieee80211_default_rc_algo' module
> > option for mac80211.  Of course, changing that only works if you
> > rmmod/insmod mac80211.
> >
> > John
> 
> Judging from this, is it really a good idea to hide pid behind EMBEDDED?

I've been wondering about that myself.  I'm inclined to think no.

John
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