From: Sujith Manoharan <sujith@msujith.org>
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Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 09:28:43 +0530
To: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] ath9k: remove ath9k_rate_control
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Felix Fietkau wrote:
> I just sent some minstrel_ht improvements to linux-wireless@
> Please test if they fix the throughput delta in your setup. In my tests
> they visibly reduce the number of unnecessary fallbacks to lower rates.

With the fixes, the avg. TX throughput crept up to 188 Mbps, but I ran
ath9k-rc once again and obtained 197 Mbps. There were lots of 200+ Mbps
max. throughput too.

This is not a synthetic benchmark with shield boxes, attenuators etc.,
just a simple over-the-air test with not much interference, so a gap of
~10 Mbps is somewhat surprising.

Sujith