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Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 13:28:11 -0800
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Subject: Re: [RFC] ath9k: remove ath9k_rate_control
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To: Sujith Manoharan <sujith@msujith.org>
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <rodrigue@qca.qualcomm.com>,
	Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>,
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On 1 March 2013 06:31, Sujith Manoharan <sujith@msujith.org> wrote:
> Felix Fietkau wrote:
>> What was the distance and what was the rate used?
>
> A distance of about a meter between the AP and STA.
>
> AP:  DB120 - running an internal build.
> STA: WB222 - wireless-testing HEAD.
> Signal is about -43 dBm.
> Channel 40, HT40-
>
> I've attached sample runs with minstrel_ht and ath9k-rc. With minstrel_ht,
> the numbers fluctuate between 180 and 190 Mbps and the average throughput
> varies each time (185, 186 etc.). With ath9k-rc, it's 195+ always.

Right. And the reason that it fluctuates is quite likely because at
the higher MCS rates (6,7/14,15/22,23) the channel behaviour is not
consistent and there's varying levels of packet loss, so things
oscillate between a bunch of MCS rates there.

IIRC, the ath9k_rc algorithm is a lot more aggressive at sticking to a
fixed, working MCS rate.

(190mbit TCP on 2-stream? Damn. Looks like I have a little more
optimisation to do in FreeBSD. I'm only hitting 160/170mbit TCP on
AR9280<->AR9280 and AR9280<->AR9287. But I hit 220-240mbit UDP.)

Thanks,


Adrian