Re: XO 1.5 - CONTENTION WINDOW

2009-12-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Franco Miceli fmic...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy wrote: Can someone explain to me why these registers have been set to such values? Is this a mistake or it is something done for some reason in particular? Hi Franco, What values are you expecting, and why? cheers, m

Re: XO 1.5 - CONTENTION WINDOW

2009-12-02 Thread Franco Miceli
What I was expecting was to have CWmax closer to 1024. What I think happens when you set CWmax to 31 is that -as you have more and more machines trying to compete for the medium- you could be having more colisions -since they would wait less time slots to tx and collisions would be more likely to

Re: XO 1.5 - CONTENTION WINDOW

2009-12-02 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 09:33 -0200, Franco Miceli wrote: What I was expecting was to have CWmax closer to 1024. What I think happens when you set CWmax to 31 is that -as you have more and more machines trying to compete for the medium- you could be having more colisions -since they would wait

Re: XO 1.5 - CONTENTION WINDOW

2009-12-02 Thread Franco Miceli
Sure, I'm looking directly at the registers in the XO 1.5 B2 laptop. The process I follow is the following one: # mount -t debugfs null /mnt # cd /mnt/lbs_wireless/eth0/ To read register 0x # echo 0x rdmac ; cat rdmac MAC[0x0] = 0x0033fa05 I've read the following registers: 0xA0A0

Re: XO 1.5 - CONTENTION WINDOW

2009-12-02 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 10:06 -0200, Franco Miceli wrote: Now, this are the four queues I've read, and they have the values: CWmax = 31 CWmin = 7 The eight registers that follow this ones have the exact same pattern (7 31 7 31). That's why I mentioned eight queues (but I might be

Re: XO 1.5 - CONTENTION WINDOW

2009-12-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Ok, and what about the documentation? Also - what does the firmware on the card do with that? Could it be overwritten by a DCW algorythm? m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask

Re: XO 1.5 - CONTENTION WINDOW

2009-12-02 Thread Franco Miceli
Daniel, I've not got such documentation, could you tell me where can I get it? Also - what does the firmware on the card do with that? Could it be overwritten by a DCW algorythm? -Martin Martin, No idea if that happens, I've only read such parameters since they were used also by the XO1.0 and

Re: XO 1.5 - CONTENTION WINDOW

2009-12-02 Thread Andrés Ambrois
On Wednesday 02 December 2009 10:49:38 am Martin Langhoff wrote: On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Ok, and what about the documentation? Also - what does the firmware on the card do with that? Could it be overwritten by a DCW algorythm? Are you sure that

XO 1.5 - CONTENTION WINDOW

2009-12-01 Thread Franco Miceli
Hi, Looking for the reasons for low throughput on the XO 1.5 I've come across with the contention window's registers. I've found that there are like eight queues and that for all of them the CWmax and min are set as follows: CWmin = 7 slots CWmax = 31 slots As I see it this would make for a