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From: jpo <pommnitz@yahoo.com>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Performance regression between Madwifi/net80211 and ath5k/mac80211
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:09:37 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20110621T215346-191@post.gmane.org> (raw)

Hello all,
there seems to be a significant performance loss when moving from Madwifi 
to ath5k. For an embedded project we have been using Madwifi with Linux kernel
2.6.23. We have tested ath5k for some time and by now it seems to be stable
enough for production use. Unfortunately it doesn't match Madwifi's performance.
Running iperf (both, UDP and TCP) between two machines equipped with an AR5413
with the Fedora 15 kernel and the stock Fedora 15 wireless subsystem shows a
performance loss of about 10% relative to 2.6.23 and Madwifi-0.9.4.
The tests where done under close to ideal lab conditions (cards connected with
an antenna cable) running an IBSS network on channel 40 (5200MHz).

Can anybody confirm this observation?
Is there an explanation?
Are there some tuning knobs I could try to improve the performance with
mac80211/ath5k?
Is the problem outside the wireless subsystem (Maybe it's the TCP/IP stack or
something Fedora specific)?

Thanks in advance.
  Joerg


             reply	other threads:[~2011-06-21 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-21 20:09 jpo [this message]
2011-06-22  2:17 ` Performance regression between Madwifi/net80211 and ath5k/mac80211 Adrian Chadd
2011-06-22 13:41   ` Joerg Pommnitz
2011-06-22 13:46     ` Johannes Berg
2011-06-22 14:41       ` Joerg Pommnitz
2011-06-22 14:50         ` Johannes Berg
2011-06-22 15:02           ` AW: " Joerg Pommnitz
2011-06-22 15:07           ` Joerg Pommnitz
2011-06-22 18:52             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-06-26 14:45             ` [ath5k-devel] " Felix Fietkau
2011-06-27 10:26               ` Joerg Pommnitz
2011-06-30 11:02             ` Bob Copeland
2011-10-19 10:06               ` Joerg Pommnitz
2011-10-19 11:33                 ` Adrian Chadd
2011-10-19 15:55                   ` Pavel Roskin
2011-10-19 18:27                     ` Sam Leffler

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