P.G. Richardson wrote:
> phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid'
>
> which is a first as it has always been 'mistral'. The only difference with
> compiling last night was I was not running the kernel I compiled against.
> I used 'make KLIB=/usr/src/{my new kernel} KLIB_BUILD=/usr/src/{my new
> kernel}' instead.
>
> Just recompiled while running {my new kernel} and mistral correctly
> selected as rate control algorithm. Once installed, it does correctly auto
> select rate as expected.
>
> iperf shows Mb performance has dropped though but gets improved by again
> fixing the rate at 11Mb.
>
> So cheers for the info.
Minstrel is definitely a better choice than pid.
There is one thing that might make your interface work better. For performance
reasons, I chose not to pause the mac80211 queues at one point in the driver.
For my device, it did not make a difference, but it might for you. Please try
the attached patch.
Thanks,
Larry
Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_dev.c
===================================================================
--- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_dev.c
+++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_dev.c
@@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ static void rtl8187_tx_cb(struct urb *ur
* here, thus queue the skb and finish on a work queue. */
skb_queue_tail(&priv->b_tx_status.queue, skb);
queue_delayed_work(hw->workqueue, &priv->work, 0);
+ ieee80211_stop_queues(hw);
}
}
@@ -898,6 +899,7 @@ static void rtl8187_work(struct work_str
}
retry = tmp;
mutex_unlock(&priv->conf_mutex);
+ ieee80211_wake_queues(dev);
}
static int rtl8187_start(struct ieee80211_hw *dev)
