From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f227.google.com ([209.85.218.227]:42398 "EHLO mail-bw0-f227.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751479AbZKHXh5 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:37:57 -0500 Received: by bwz27 with SMTP id 27so2932519bwz.21 for ; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:38:02 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1257542956.6565.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20091106214803.GL2782@tuxdriver.com> <1257548493.3752.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> <3ace41890911070418v1b0fc540v4f620470a21dfebb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 23:38:01 +0000 Message-ID: <3ace41890911081538u1a6649eybdd38ffe4b0fd6fc@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Changing from Minstrel to PID From: Hin-Tak Leung To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mart=EDn_Ernesto_Barreyro?= Cc: "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Martín Ernesto Barreyro wrote: > I don't know, I'll post the minstrel statistics, maybe it'll help you.Some > months ago the rate control wasn't working at all, and Larry took care of > it. Since that both algorithms started working, the count of retrys was > missing at that time. > Both algorithms started working, but minstrel sometimes works for while but > then goes to the max rate, in my case 54mbps if i a don't change it to other > with iwconfig, e.g iwconfig wlan0 rate 11M auto I am sure somebody with more experience with tuning mistrel can give you some help... >> The other thing is, you can probably patch compat-wireless to do >> something similiar or at least experiment with it, as long as your >> kernel is configured with most of them as modules. Switching >> compat-wireless is quite easy, and particularly with the >> 'driver-select rtl818x' option you just rebuild about 6 kernel modules >> instead of the usual 50+, which makes it quite quick and painless. > > > You are saying that i could give it a try for adding the option that i was > asking for? > Iill give it a shot but i don't know how many time will it take me Yes, compat-wlreless is useful for trying out small patches. Adding a module parameter isn't too much trouble, i think - and there are plenty of examples (many kernel module do parameters).