Subject: Re: poor performance with ath5k; reverting to ath_pci
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:04:35 +0100
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On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 08:49 -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 06:32:55AM +0200, Nick Kossifidis wrote:
> > 2009/1/21 Stefanik G=C3=A1bor <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>:
> > >
> > > I think EMBEDDED is for options that replace full-featured Linux
> > > components with dumbed-down, "low-profile" equivalents (like SLOB) -
> > > PID vs. minstrel is more like SLAB vs. SLUB.
> > >
> > > G=C3=A1bor
> > >
> >=20
> > Minstrell performs very well even on embedded devices, i don't think
> > it's that heavy compared to pid.
>=20
> I think his point was that people should be able to select multiple
> algorithms without having to select EMBEDDED.

The reason it was originally under EMBEDDED is that this allows you to
turn off _all_ algorithms, and that breaks, but might be desirable if
you have a system where you know you're using iwlagn or ath9k only which
have their own algorithms.

johannes

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