Re: [RFC V3] mac80211: re-enable aggregation on 2.6.27

["Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 07:49:06PM -0700, Steven Noonan wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Please test and let us know, try HT40 on 11a. We're keen on resolving
> >> this just as with the MIB interrupt issue you say ;)
> >
> > Will do. It will have to wait until Monday though, because I stupidly
> > left my AirPort Extreme router's AC adapter at home (3 hours away).
> 
> I just realized I happened to have a Linksys WRT300N router with me
> (completely forgot I even owned one). Anyway, I'm running with HT40,
> and it seems to work fine. Throughput is certainly lower than on Mac
> OS X (I get about 8 megabytes per second sustained transfer rate on OS
> X), as I'm only getting about 2 megabytes per second with ath9k on
> Linux.  The aggregation patch does make a difference, but not by a
> whole lot.

We will work on resolving throughput issues, check out wireless-testing
with the patches too (they haven't yet been merged), see if you see
improvements there.

For now we want to just fix 2.6.27 to have aggregation available.

  Luis