Return-path: Received: from mail.atheros.com ([12.36.123.2]:56625 "EHLO mail.atheros.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752605AbYI2R3n (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:29:43 -0400 Received: from mail.atheros.com ([10.10.20.105]) by sidewinder.atheros.com for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:29:43 -0700 Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:29:30 -0700 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: Steven Noonan CC: Luis Rodriguez , Tomas Winkler , "linville@tuxdriver.com" , "johannes@sipsolutions.net" , "yi.zhu@intel.com" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [RFC V3] mac80211: re-enable aggregation on 2.6.27 Message-ID: <20080929172930.GB6203@tesla> (sfid-20080929_192949_095753_D0323CCF) References: <1222371297-24498-1-git-send-email-tomas.winkler@intel.com> <20080926015100.GR6204@tesla> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 07:49:06PM -0700, Steven Noonan wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Steven Noonan wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > >> > >> Please test and let us know, try HT40 on 11a. We're keen on resolving > >> this just as with the MIB interrupt issue you say ;) > > > > Will do. It will have to wait until Monday though, because I stupidly > > left my AirPort Extreme router's AC adapter at home (3 hours away). > > I just realized I happened to have a Linksys WRT300N router with me > (completely forgot I even owned one). Anyway, I'm running with HT40, > and it seems to work fine. Throughput is certainly lower than on Mac > OS X (I get about 8 megabytes per second sustained transfer rate on OS > X), as I'm only getting about 2 megabytes per second with ath9k on > Linux. The aggregation patch does make a difference, but not by a > whole lot. We will work on resolving throughput issues, check out wireless-testing with the patches too (they haven't yet been merged), see if you see improvements there. For now we want to just fix 2.6.27 to have aggregation available. Luis