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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: use legacy mode for all ACs

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On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 15:03 +0300, Eyal Shapira wrote:
> AVM FritzBox 7390 has a weird behaviour where once we enable
> U-APSD only on the VO AC it limits the rate of the packets
> it sends to 39Mbps and doesn't do AMPDU aggregation.
> This causes a big degradation in throughput obviously.
> It's important to note that this isn't related to PS and happens
> also when ACTIVE is forced. The traffic affected is sent in BE AC.
> Once legacy mode for all ACs is used the AP begins using higher rates
> as well as AMPDU aggregation which improves throughput significantly.
> 
> In order to deal with this AP and potentially others switch to
> using legacy mode for all ACs by default.

This actually somewhat makes sense if they have a bad aggregation
implementation, because you don't want VO to have latency, *especially*
not when uAPSD was enabled, indicating that you want VO-like low-latency
behaviour.

I don't see why you're optimising for TPT on VO rather then latency?

johannes

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