Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH v2 2/2] rtl8187: feedback transmitted packets using tx close descriptor for 8187B

[Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>]

Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> 
> Before installing compat-wireless, I think the rate started at 36Mb and moves up to 54Mb and get stuck at 54Mb as soon as any traffic is getting through; after installing the patched compat-wireless, the rate changes beteen 1Mb and 9Mb for a bit but get stuck at 1Mb as soon as any substantial traffic is getting through. I can manually switch it with "iwconfig wlan2 rate 36M", for example, but with an auto, "iwconfig wlan2 rate 36M auto", it drops back to 1Mb very soon.
> 
> Baring changes in the rest of the wireless stack (which might come to the same thing), it is probably the changes surrounding status.rate[0].count vs status.retry_count which causes the 1Mb-rate-stuck... 
> 
> Did Larry get the v2 patches to do rate-control working (i.e. the rate actually changing with demand), or not? Larry's reply was "the rate-control mechanism works the way it did before" - I am  not sure about the "it did" bit - same as v1 (rate stuck at 1Mb) or same as the prototype patch for 2.6.27 (rate changing with demand)?  

On my system is started at 1 Mbs and rapidly moved to 54Mbs. It went so quickly
that by the time I started a ping, switched terminals, and issued an ivconfig,
it was already at 54 Mbs.

Larry