Return-path: Received: from mail-iy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:34137 "EHLO mail-iy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758595Ab1FVSxQ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:53:16 -0400 Received: by iyb12 with SMTP id 12so906877iyb.19 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:53:15 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1308755270.21489.YahooMailRC@web161204.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1308750102.64154.YahooMailRC@web161214.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <1308750416.29571.10.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> <1308753669.17439.YahooMailRC@web161208.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <1308754204.29571.15.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> <1308755270.21489.YahooMailRC@web161204.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:52:55 -0700 Message-ID: (sfid-20110622_205319_898381_84E3CCC8) Subject: Re: Performance regression between Madwifi/net80211 and ath5k/mac80211 To: Joerg Pommnitz Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Joerg Pommnitz wrote: >> I guess you'll  need more help from the HW people here. > > Bob, Bruno, Felix, Luis, Nick: Do you read? I read but I do not have time to work on this, my focus is on newer hardware and other things. Only thing I can recommend is to stay with the latest drivers [1] for your metrics, and if you choose a stable release instead of bleeding edge pick the latest stable [2]. You may want to try Oprofile to see where ath5k spends its time doing most work. [1] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download [2] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/stable Luis