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> 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.
>

Hi Larry,

Applied this patch, this morning. Run with it rest of the day yet seems to
make little or no difference so far.

Cheers

PGR

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