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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Joerg Pommnitz <pommnitz@yahoo.com>
Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org
Subject: Re: Performance regression between Madwifi/net80211 and ath5k/mac80211
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:50:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1308754204.29571.15.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1308753669.17439.YahooMailRC@web161208.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 07:41 -0700, Joerg Pommnitz wrote:

> To answer your actual question: No, there doesn't seem to be a
> difference in CPU usage as shown by top. If anything, madwifi 
> seems to use a little bit more:
> 
> madwifi: 85,5% idle, 10% si
> ath5k  : 89% idle,   10% si

That seems insignificant with so much idle.

> The CPU is:
> 
> processor    : 0
> vendor_id    : GenuineIntel
> cpu family    : 6
> model        : 13
> model name    : Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor         1.00GHz

So it should be a fairly capable system.

I guess you'll need more help from the HW people here.

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-22 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-21 20:09 Performance regression between Madwifi/net80211 and ath5k/mac80211 jpo
2011-06-22  2:17 ` Adrian Chadd
2011-06-22 13:41   ` Joerg Pommnitz
2011-06-22 13:46     ` Johannes Berg
2011-06-22 14:41       ` Joerg Pommnitz
2011-06-22 14:50         ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2011-06-22 15:02           ` AW: " Joerg Pommnitz
2011-06-22 15:07           ` Joerg Pommnitz
2011-06-22 18:52             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-06-26 14:45             ` [ath5k-devel] " Felix Fietkau
2011-06-27 10:26               ` Joerg Pommnitz
2011-06-30 11:02             ` Bob Copeland
2011-10-19 10:06               ` Joerg Pommnitz
2011-10-19 11:33                 ` Adrian Chadd
2011-10-19 15:55                   ` Pavel Roskin
2011-10-19 18:27                     ` Sam Leffler

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