Re: [2.6.16-gitX] heavy performance regression in ipw2200 wireless driver

["Alessandro Suardi" <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>]

On 3/24/06, Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 15:02 +0100, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
> > That scp test shows 50%ish - but that was a quickie. The VNC
> >  client even reported a 719Kbps throughput down from the more
> >  usual 11500Kbps it starts off with. The first scp I tried when the
> >  sluggishness was intolerable was going at 200KB/s - which
> >  shows the problem can easily get in the neighborhood of an
> >  order of magnitude.
>
> What kind of wireless encryption do you use? We turned off hardware
> encryption by default recently as a workaround for a firmware restart
> bug. You might want to load module with "modprobe ipw2200 hwcrypto=1"
> and retest.

The issue seems to have vanished in more recent kernel snapshots
 (namely, 2.6.16-git3 and -git5 exhibited the problem; -git8 and -git9
 did not).

I will holler if the problem pops up again... thanks,

--alessandro

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