[ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues

2011-04-05 Thread Bernhard Walle
Hello, we're using a PCIe AR9280 card on a Octeon MIPS CPU. The system that does the transmission has a high CPU utilization: iperf in UDP mode with 50M bandwith has ~90 % CPU utilization with a high softirq proportion. Using an Intel card (5300) has a lower CPU utilization (~60 %), but it's

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues

2011-04-05 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2011-04-05 5:44 PM, Bernhard Walle wrote: Hello, we're using a PCIe AR9280 card on a Octeon MIPS CPU. The system that does the transmission has a high CPU utilization: iperf in UDP mode with 50M bandwith has ~90 % CPU utilization with a high softirq proportion. Using an Intel card

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues

2011-04-05 Thread Serene Gud
--- On Tue, 4/5/11, Felix Fietkau n...@openwrt.org wrote: From: Felix Fietkau n...@openwrt.org Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues To: Bernhard Walle bernh...@bwalle.de Cc: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2011, 9:29 PM On 2011-04-05 5:44 PM, Bernhard Walle

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues

2011-04-05 Thread Bernhard Walle
Hello Felix, * Felix Fietkau n...@openwrt.org [2011-04-05 17:59]: On 2011-04-05 5:44 PM, Bernhard Walle wrote: we're using a PCIe AR9280 card on a Octeon MIPS CPU. The system that does the transmission has a high CPU utilization: iperf in UDP mode with 50M bandwith has ~90 % CPU

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues

2011-04-05 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2011-04-05 6:03 PM, Serene Gud wrote: --- On *Tue, 4/5/11, Felix Fietkau /n...@openwrt.org/* wrote: From: Felix Fietkau n...@openwrt.org Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues To: Bernhard Walle bernh...@bwalle.de Cc: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org Date

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues

2011-04-05 Thread Serene Gud
On 2011-04-05 6:03 PM, Serene Gud wrote:      On 2011-04-05 5:44 PM, Bernhard Walle wrote:       Hello,             we're using a PCIe AR9280 card on a Octeon MIPS CPU. The system       that does the transmission has a high CPU utilization:             iperf in UDP mode with 50M bandwith

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues

2011-04-05 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2011-04-05 6:19 PM, Bernhard Walle wrote: Hello Felix, * Felix Fietkaun...@openwrt.org [2011-04-05 17:59]: On 2011-04-05 5:44 PM, Bernhard Walle wrote: we're using a PCIe AR9280 card on a Octeon MIPS CPU. The system that does the transmission has a high CPU utilization: iperf

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues

2011-04-05 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2011-04-05 6:54 PM, Serene Gud wrote: On 2011-04-05 6:03 PM, Serene Gud wrote: On 2011-04-05 5:44 PM, Bernhard Walle wrote: Hello, we're using a PCIe AR9280 card on a Octeon MIPS CPU. The system that does the transmission has a high CPU

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues

2011-04-05 Thread Serene Gud
--- On Tue, 4/5/11, Felix Fietkau n...@openwrt.org wrote: On 2011-04-05 6:54 PM, Serene Gud wrote:      On 2011-04-05 6:03 PM, Serene Gud wrote:             On 2011-04-05 5:44 PM, Bernhard Walle wrote:       Hello,             we're using a PCIe AR9280 card on a Octeon MIPS CPU. The

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues

2011-04-05 Thread Kucherenko Valeriy
Are you using the ath9k rate control or are you using minstrel_ht? My tests were done with minstrel_ht. You can enable it by disabling the config option for the ath9k rate control. - Felix This is interesting. I have a problem with rate control (I guess) too. Can you give me a clue on

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues

2011-04-05 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2011-04-05 7:52 PM, Kucherenko Valeriy wrote: Are you using the ath9k rate control or are you using minstrel_ht? My tests were done with minstrel_ht. You can enable it by disabling the config option for the ath9k rate control. - Felix This is interesting. I have a problem with rate

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues

2011-04-05 Thread Larry Vaden
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Felix Fietkau n...@openwrt.org wrote: On 2011-04-05 7:52 PM, Kucherenko Valeriy wrote:  Are you using the ath9k rate control or are you using minstrel_ht? My  tests were done with minstrel_ht. You can enable it by disabling the  config option for the ath9k rate

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues

2011-04-05 Thread Larry Vaden
Again, HTH: this is from a Bullet M2 running stock r26358: Station 00:15:6d:f0:47:dd (on wlan0) inactive time: 44790 ms rx bytes: 10380739 rx packets: 55088 tx bytes: 96278984 tx packets: 81367 tx retries: 51061 tx

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues

2011-04-05 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Felix Fietkau n...@openwrt.org [2011-04-05 18:54]: I'm using 2.6.38.1 ath9k which is at ~80 % CPU, starting from 2.6.37.1 with ~90 % CPU which was still an improvement. Do you think that compat-wireless gives still a performance boost? Not sure. These numbers sound awfully high to me.

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k performance issues

2011-04-05 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2011-04-05 9:57 PM, Bernhard Walle wrote: * Felix Fietkaun...@openwrt.org [2011-04-05 18:54]: I'm using 2.6.38.1 ath9k which is at ~80 % CPU, starting from 2.6.37.1 with ~90 % CPU which was still an improvement. Do you think that compat-wireless gives still a performance boost? Not