Also, I had a lot of miscellaneous problems with zd1211rw under 2.6.18. I
updated to 2.6.19 yesterday and patched in the latest zd1211rw.git, and have
noticed a marked improvement in reliability/performance.
On 12/3/06, Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Arek Jankowski wrote:
> Some of this is already known, but I hope this information may be still
useful
> for some. My main question is why the zd1211rw performance is so low? Is
> there a way to debug this problem?
You didn't state whether you were measuring RX or TX performance, or
whether you were using 802.11b or g.
In general zd1211rw performance is not that bad, although I think we
still only meet about half the RX speed of the vendor driver, unsure
about TX. We're not sure why, but at the same time nobody has really
investigated. Our driver is less efficient in that we allocate memory in
the RX path rather than using some kind of circular buffer system, but
this should be insignificant (unless we're pegging the CPU on your ARM?)
Also remember that the vendor driver dynamically adjust it's rate based
on signal quality but zd1211rw defaults to 11m and relies on the user
setting a sensible rate. If you set 54M but don't have a strong signal,
then you'll get considerably worse performance than (e.g.) 24M.
To start with, use a vendor driver which does not have large packet
support, otherwise it is not a fair comparison. (It is *possible* that
zd1211rw not using jumbo frames is a reason for slowdown but I expect it
will be an insignificant difference)
The next steps would be to find what's different. You could dump the
controlset on each outgoing frame and check that the match for both
drivers. You could also write a patch for both drivers to dump the
contents of all control registers on-demand (possibly through the
ethtool interface) and then compare results from the 2 drivers.
Daniel
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