[Make-wifi-fast] Testing the LEDE nbd/staging branch

[Richard Smith]

On 08/30/2016 06:48 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:

> Richard Smith <smithbone at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 08/29/2016 06:22 PM, Dave Taht wrote:
>>> I have tested toke's wndr3800 build below, and with psk2+ccmp crypto
>>> enabled, using an osx box
>>> to drive the tests, I can get 210Mbit wifi downloads and uploads for
>>> nearly any number of flows. Fairness is nearly perfect. w00t!
>>
>> Unfortunately, I still get the same behavior where it borks my Intel
>> AC 8260 card.
>
> Hmm, that's certainly "interesting"...
>
> You say your baseline is a CC access point; there are so many moving
> parts in this that it would be good to verify whether the crash is
> caused by the softq patches specifically. Could you do an identical
> build where you remove
> package/kernel/mac80211/patches/337-ath9k-Switch-to-using-mac80211-intermediate-software.patch
> (and any subsequent patches that touch the same code; i.e., the airtime
> fairness patches), and see if that also causes crashes? :)

Sure and if that works I'll walk though the patches seeing which one 
causes the trouble.

I only have before/after work to test so it may take a day or 2 to go 
though all the combinations.

-- 
Richard A. Smith