P.G. Richardson wrote:
> phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid'
> 
> which is a first as it has always been 'mistral'. The only difference with
> compiling last night was I was not running the kernel I compiled against.
> I used 'make KLIB=/usr/src/{my new kernel} KLIB_BUILD=/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 correctly auto
> select rate as expected.
> 
> iperf shows Mb performance has dropped though but gets improved by again
> 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. Please try
the attached patch.

Thanks,

Larry