[Cerowrt-devel] [Make-wifi-fast] wifi airtime fairness patches could use eyeballs and testing

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen]

Noah Causin <n0manletter at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I am aware that a performance regression with using fq in mac80211 with multiple tcp streams has been reported, and this patch in lede disables it.
>
> https://github.com/lede-project/source/commit/4952469ff9278288d766b28247a17694b1c4faaa
>
> Has that been resolved?

Just did a test of this and can reproduce with a wndr3800 as the access
point. I see about a 25% reduction in aggregate throughput with two
streams as opposed to one.

Packet captures and time sequence graphs are here:
https://kau.toke.dk/experiments/softq-debug/ - the onestream* and
twostream* files.

-Toke