Return-path: Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:43760 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752151AbZAEEtD (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2009 23:49:03 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 06:02:48 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Larry Finger Cc: Andi Kleen , Michael Buesch , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, John Linville Subject: Re: rate instability in wireless stack Message-ID: <20090105050248.GG496@one.firstfloor.org> (sfid-20090105_054914_739278_1EA36CCD) References: <20090104164649.GV496@one.firstfloor.org> <200901041736.47650.mb@bu3sch.de> <20090104174123.GW496@one.firstfloor.org> <49615465.4090604@lwfinger.net> <20090105025302.GF496@one.firstfloor.org> <49618497.50809@lwfinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <49618497.50809@lwfinger.net> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 09:55:03PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > Same issue with this patch. It fluctuates some time between 11Mbit/s > > and 48Mbit/s, but then eventually settles on 1Mbit/s again. That's with PID > > now, not Mistrel. I think it takes longer with this patch than > > before, but not much. > > > > BTW I see the problem with RT2561 too. > > Can you retry with mistrel? In my experience, it converges to a lower rate than > does pid, but it doesn't fluctuate as much. Minstrel stays constantly at 1 Mbit/s -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com