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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:07:41 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: rtl8187 - nice work!
From: "P.G. Richardson" <p.g.richardson@phantomjinx.co.uk>
To: "Larry Finger" <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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> P.G. Richardson wrote:
>> phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid'
>>
>> which is a first as it has always been 'mistral'. The only differenc=
e
>> with
>> compiling last night was I was not running the kernel I compiled
>> against.
>> I used 'make KLIB=3D/usr/src/{my new kernel} KLIB_BUILD=3D/usr/src/{=
my new
>> kernel}' instead.
>>
>> Just recompiled while running {my new kernel} and mistral correctly
>> selected as rate control algorithm. Once installed, it does correctl=
y
>> auto
>> select rate as expected.
>>
>> iperf shows Mb performance has dropped though but gets improved by a=
gain
>> fixing the rate at 11Mb.
>>
>> So cheers for the info.
>
> Minstrel is definitely a better choice than pid.
>
> There is one thing that might make your interface work better. For
> performance
> reasons, I chose not to pause the mac80211 queues at one point in the
> driver.
> For my device, it did not make a difference, but it might for you. Pl=
ease
> try
> the attached patch.
>

Hi Larry,

Applied this patch, this morning. Run with it rest of the day yet seems=
 to
make little or no difference so far.

Cheers

PGR

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