[Gta04-owner] Small update to 3.7-gta04 kernel: faster wifi.

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Hi,

Am 23.10.2013 um 07:55 schrieb Andreas Kemnade:

> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 14:32 +1100, NeilBrown wrote: 
>> On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 09:55:52 +0200 Andreas Kemnade <andreas at kemnade.info>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> [..] 
>>>>> Do you know what speed you can get with 2.6.32-hw?  I tried but my current
>>>>> user-space doesn't seem to work properly with such and old kernel (which
>>>>> surprised me).
>>>>> 
>>>> Hmm, i got more than 1MByte/s with quite bad reception.
>>>> 
>>> I tried again directly near the AP and I got 12Mbit/s up, 14Mbit/s down.
>>> 
>> 
>> Wow - that's about twice what I'm getting with (modified) 3.7 or 3.12.
>> Though that pattern of down (to the GTA04) being faster than up (from the
>> GTA04) is the same.
>> 
>> Though we might be testing differently.  I've been using "iperf" with
>> defaults, so TCP for 10 seconds..
>> If I change to using UDP  for 30 seconds I get 12-14Mbit/s up and 8-10Mbit/s
>> down.  That's strange.
>> 
> The first test was with piping /dev/zero through the command buffer and
> ssh (and then wait quite a time until the values become stable).  The
> second one using iperf with defaults using TCP.

That sounds good. Could you share your patches (relative 3.12 if possible?).

BR,
Nikolaus