On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 8:11 PM, John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 I think EMBEDDED is for options that replace full-featured Linux components with dumbed-down, "low-profile" equivalents (like SLOB) - PID vs. minstrel is more like SLAB vs. SLUB. Gábor -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
