Re: Performance of BCM43224 (14e4:4353)

["Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>]

On 12/09/2011 01:46 AM, Larry Finger wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> I just added the patches that let brcmsmac use bcma, and tested the TX and RX 
> rates using netperf. The results are
> 
> Driver			RX		TX
> 
> brcmsmac		21.7		6.2
> b43			15.0		6.0
> wl			43.5		73.5
> 
> The AP is running in 802.11n mode and has throughput of 40-60 Mbps in both 
> directions with an RTL8192CE, thus both open-source drivers have room for 
> improvement.
> 
> I am using the following firmware:
> b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 666.2 (2011-02-23 01:15:07)
> 
> 
> With b43 and mac80211 debugging turned on, I see a lot of
> 
> wlan13: detected beacon loss from AP - sending probe request
> 
> Larry
> 

Hi Larry

Thanks for trying. I used iperf for my throughput testing. It has two
biderectional flavours: simultaneous (-d) and individual (-r):
-d: 39 Mbps
-r: 65 Mbps

There are some more bcma related patches to be sent out, but I don't
expect that it will change your benchmark results (as mine were similar
if not identical at each commit).

Gr. AvS