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

[Andreas Kemnade]

Hi,

On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 18:28:10 +0200
"Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns at goldelico.com> wrote:

> 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?).
> 
Ehm, I tested with 2.6.32 for comparison reasons because Neil's
userspace does not work with that old kernel. So no patches this time.

Greetings
Andreas Kemnade
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