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From: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>,
	Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>,
	barreyromartin@gmail.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFT V2] rtl8187: Fix OFDM power settings for RTL8187L
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:28:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <498370F2.4040804@hauke-m.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <497F67D9.5040709@lwfinger.net>

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Larry Finger schrieb:
> Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
>> With this patch included and pid the rate goes up to 24Mb/s, but the
>> connection is stable. Without this patch is is only up to 11Mb/s. The
>> connection is still unusable with minstrel, it goes up too fare. It
>> starts with 24Mb/s and the connection drops. After some time it goes up
>> to 54Mb/s, but then it goes down again and the connection is working
>> again for a minute till the procedure begins again.
>>
>> What do you mean with rc_stats ?
> 
> The statistics for the mistrel algorithn are presented in the /sys
> tree in a file named rc_stats. The easy way to see that data is to do
> the following:
> 
> STATS=$(find /sys -name rc_stats)
> sudo cat $STATS
> 
> You will get output that looks like
> 
> rate     throughput  ewma prob   this prob  this succ/attempt
> success    attempts
>      1         0.9       99.9      100.0          0(  0)        855
>       873
>      2         1.8       95.7      100.0          0(  0)         11
>        11
>   P  5.5       5.0       99.9      100.0          0(  0)         77
>        77
>     11         9.1       95.9      100.0          0(  0)         14
>        16
>      6         5.4       95.6      100.0          0(  0)         16
>        19
>      9         8.0       95.7      100.0          0(  0)         11
>        11
>     12        10.6       95.7      100.0          0(  0)         11
>        11
>     18        15.5       95.7      100.0          0(  0)         11
>        11
>     24        20.4       96.0      100.0          0(  0)        276
>       279
>     36         5.9       96.0      100.0          0(  0)         76
>        78
>  t  48         6.5       76.5      100.0          0(  0)       2958
>      3034
> T   54        20.0       99.9      100.0          1(  1)       6220
>      6400
> 
> Total packet count::    ideal 9216      lookaround 485
> 
> These data are for my RTL8187, which is running at 54 Mb/s (the line
> with the T) and the success rate at this speed is 6220/6400 (97%).
> 
> Let the mistrel method go through several of those cycles that you
> mention and then dump and post this table. Perhaps the experts will
> see what is wrong.
> 
> Larry

Hi Larry,

I captured the rc_stats for my rtl8187 device. These stats are created with kernel
2.6.29-rc3-wl (master-2009-01-28). I tried to get traffic through the link, but I was almost
dead. Most of the time it showed me 54Mb/s in iwconfig.

Hauke


hauke@hauke-desktop:~/kamikaze/openwrt5$ sudo cat $STATS
rate     throughput  ewma prob   this prob  this succ/attempt   success    attempts
     1         0.2       25.0      100.0          0(  0)          1           1
     2         0.0        3.1       12.5          0(  0)          1           8
     5.5       1.2       25.0      100.0          0(  0)          1           1
  P 11         5.5       57.8       12.5          0(  0)       3924        4064
     6         1.4       25.0      100.0          0(  0)          1           1
     9         2.1       25.0      100.0          0(  0)          1           1
    12         2.7       25.0      100.0          0(  0)          1           1
    18         2.0       12.5       50.0          0(  0)          1           2
    24         5.3       25.0      100.0          0(  0)          1           1
 t  36         6.8       22.3       12.5          0(  0)          6          34
T   48         9.1       23.3       12.5          1(  8)         27         190
    54         1.3        3.1       12.5          0(  0)          1           8

Total packet count::    ideal 212      lookaround 11

hauke@hauke-desktop:~/kamikaze/openwrt5$ sudo cat $STATS
rate     throughput  ewma prob   this prob  this succ/attempt   success    attempts
     1         0.2       25.0      100.0          0(  0)          1           1
     2         0.0        3.1       12.5          0(  0)          1           8
     5.5       1.2       25.0      100.0          0(  0)          1           1
  P 11         5.5       57.8       12.5          0(  0)       3924        4064
     6         1.4       25.0      100.0          0(  0)          1           1
     9         2.1       25.0      100.0          0(  0)          1           1
    12         2.7       25.0      100.0          0(  0)          1           1
    18         2.0       12.5       50.0          0(  0)          1           2
    24         5.3       25.0      100.0          0(  0)          1           1
 t  36         5.8       19.2       10.0          0(  0)          7          44
T   48         6.0       15.4       12.5          1(  8)         36         273
    54         1.3        3.1       12.5          0(  0)          1           8

Total packet count::    ideal 222      lookaround 11

hauke@hauke-desktop:~/kamikaze/openwrt5$ sudo cat $STATS
rate     throughput  ewma prob   this prob  this succ/attempt   success    attempts
     1         0.2       25.0      100.0          0(  0)          1           1
     2         0.1        5.4       12.5          0(  0)          2          16
     5.5       1.2       25.0      100.0          0(  0)          1           1
  P 11         4.4       46.4       12.5          0(  0)       3925        4072
     6         1.4       25.0      100.0          0(  0)          1           1
     9         2.1       25.0      100.0          0(  0)          1           1
    12         2.7       25.0      100.0          0(  0)          1           1
    18         2.0       12.5       12.5          0(  0)          2          10
    24         4.6       21.8       12.5          0(  0)          2           9
 t  36         4.6       15.3       12.5          0(  0)         11          76
T   48         6.4       16.3       12.5          1(  8)         83         649
    54         1.3        3.1       12.5          0(  0)          1           8

Total packet count::    ideal 274      lookaround 14

hauke@hauke-desktop:~/kamikaze/openwrt5$ sudo cat $STATS
rate     throughput  ewma prob   this prob  this succ/attempt   success    attempts
     1         0.1       17.7       12.5          0(  0)          4          25
     2         0.3       16.6       50.0          0(  0)          3          18
     5.5       1.9       39.6      100.0          0(  0)          4          18
    11         3.0       31.6       12.5          0(  0)       3927        4088
     6         0.9       17.4       12.5          0(  0)          4          27
     9         1.4       17.7       12.5          0(  0)          4          25
    12         4.6       41.9      100.0          0(  0)          4          14
  P 18         7.9       48.8       12.5          0(  0)        120         206
    24         7.4       34.7       12.5          0(  0)        133         418
T   36        11.6       38.1       12.5          1(  8)         21         135
    48         5.3       13.6       12.5          0(  0)        217        1684
 t  54         8.3       19.2       12.5          0(  0)        139         963

Total packet count::    ideal 793      lookaround 41

hauke@hauke-desktop:~/kamikaze/openwrt5$ sudo cat $STATS
rate     throughput  ewma prob   this prob  this succ/attempt   success    attempts
     1         0.1       17.7       12.5          0(  0)          4          25
     2         0.3       16.6       50.0          0(  0)          3          18
     5.5       1.9       39.6      100.0          0(  0)          4          18
    11         3.0       31.6       12.5          0(  0)       3927        4088
     6         0.9       17.4       12.5          0(  0)          4          27
     9         1.4       17.7       12.5          0(  0)          4          25
    12         4.6       41.9      100.0          0(  0)          4          14
  P 18         7.9       48.8       12.5          0(  0)        120         206
    24         7.4       34.7       12.5          0(  0)        133         418
T   36        11.6       38.1       12.5          1(  8)         21         135
    48         5.3       13.6       12.5          0(  0)        217        1684
 t  54         8.3       19.2       12.5          0(  0)        139         963

Total packet count::    ideal 793      lookaround 41

hauke@hauke-desktop:~/kamikaze/openwrt5$ sudo cat $STATS
rate     throughput  ewma prob   this prob  this succ/attempt   success    attempts
     1         0.1       17.7       12.5          0(  0)          4          25
     2         0.7       37.4      100.0          0(  0)          4          19
     5.5       1.9       39.6      100.0          0(  0)          4          18
    11         2.5       26.8       12.5          0(  0)       3928        4096
     6         0.9       17.4       12.5          0(  0)          4          27
     9         1.4       17.7       12.5          0(  0)          4          25
  P 12         4.6       41.9      100.0          0(  0)          4          14
    18         5.5       33.8       12.5          0(  0)        124         229
    24         5.3       25.0       12.5          0(  0)        136         442
 t  36         5.8       19.3       12.5          0(  0)         33         224
    48         5.3       13.6       12.5          0(  0)        217        1684
T   54         6.7       15.5       12.5          1(  8)        153        1061

Total packet count::    ideal 826      lookaround 43

hauke@hauke-desktop:~/kamikaze/openwrt5$ sudo cat $STATS
rate     throughput  ewma prob   this prob  this succ/attempt   success    attempts
 tP  1         0.7       81.8       50.0          0(  0)         21          23
     2         0.0        0.0        0.0          0(  0)          0           0
     5.5       0.0        0.0        0.0          0(  0)          0           0
    11         0.0        0.0        0.0          0(  0)          0           0
     6         0.0        0.0        0.0          0(  0)          0           0
     9         0.0        0.0        0.0          0(  0)          0           0
    12         0.0        0.0        0.0          0(  0)          0           0
    18         0.0        0.0        0.0          0(  0)          0           0
    24         0.0        0.0        0.0          0(  0)          0           0
T   36         4.5       14.8       12.5          1(  8)         15         106
    48         0.0        0.0        0.0          0(  0)          0           0
    54         0.0        0.0        0.0          0(  0)          0           0

Total packet count::    ideal 36      lookaround 1


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  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-30 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-23  0:03 [PATCH] rtl8187: Fix driver to return TX retry info for RTL8187L Larry Finger
2009-01-23 15:07 ` Hauke Mehrtens
2009-01-23 15:31   ` John W. Linville
2009-01-24 12:12     ` Hauke Mehrtens
2009-01-24 17:45       ` Larry Finger
2009-01-25 16:55       ` Larry Finger
2009-01-26  1:36       ` [RFT] rtl8187: Fix OFDM power settings " Larry Finger
2009-01-26  3:19       ` [RFT V2] " Larry Finger
2009-01-27 19:24         ` Hauke Mehrtens
2009-01-27 19:41           ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-01-27 20:00           ` Larry Finger
2009-01-30 21:28             ` Hauke Mehrtens [this message]
2009-01-23 15:34   ` [PATCH] rtl8187: Fix driver to return TX retry info " Larry Finger

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