Return-path: Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:54348 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753028AbZADR1j (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2009 12:27:39 -0500 Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 18:41:23 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Michael Buesch Cc: Andi Kleen , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: rate instability in wireless stack Message-ID: <20090104174123.GW496@one.firstfloor.org> (sfid-20090104_182743_018358_1C91B6E8) References: <20090104164649.GV496@one.firstfloor.org> <200901041736.47650.mb@bu3sch.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200901041736.47650.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 05:36:47PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Sunday 04 January 2009 17:46:49 Andi Kleen wrote: > [snip] > > I guess you're using the minstrel rate control. > Can you switch to PID rate control and retry. I thought i had tried both, but on rechecking it looks like Kconfig makes it actively hard to do that (grumbl) and probably minstrel was on all the time. Anyways with PID i get between 1Mbit/s and 5.5Mbit/s, most of the time 1Mbit/s. So it's not really much better. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com