On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 02:45:53PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: > This patch adds support for 11n Tx aggregation to iwm(4). > > Please help with testing if you can by running the patch and using wifi > as usual. Nothing should change, except that Tx speed may potentially > improve. If you have time to run before/after performance measurements with > tcpbench or such, that would be nice. But it's not required for testing. > > If Tx aggregation is active then netstat will show a non-zero output block ack > agreement counter: > > $ netstat -W iwm0 | grep 'output block' > 3 new output block ack agreements > 0 output block ack agreements timed out > > It would be great to get at least one test for all the chipsets the driver > supports: 7260, 7265, 3160, 3165, 3168, 8260, 8265, 9260, 9560 > The behaviour of the access point also matters a great deal. It won't > hurt to test the same chipset against several different access points. > > I have tested this version on 8265 only so far. I've run older revisions > of this patch on 7265 so I'm confident that this chip will work, too. > So far, the APs I have tested against are athn(4) in 11a mode and in 11n > mode with the 'nomimo' nwflag, and a Sagemcom 11ac AP. All on 5Ghz channels. >
Sure you've got plenty of 8265 tests, but the diff tripled my speed against my apple airport extreme. iwm0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265" rev 0x78, msi -- Tracey Emery
