[rft] atheros users, please update and test

Monthadar Al Jaberi monthadar at gmail.com
Thu Feb 21 12:24:16 UTC 2013


On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been working on the TX underrun issues that I've only just noticed!
>
> * I've just made the TX underrun and TX FIFO adjustment code in the
> driver match what the reference driver does.
>   * That is, the thresholds that are being used for when to start
> refilling the TX FIFO now match what the reference driver does for the
> AR5416 and later chips, rather than using the same thresholds as the
> AR5212.

It is of interest for you that people with AR5212 based wifi (Ubiquiti
XR2/PCEngines DCMA-82 these are AR5414) test too?

> * I've also fixed the 11n TX delimiter / TX data underrun statistics.
> The TX FIFO underrun statistics were already okay.
> * I haven't yet updated the earlier HAL code to properly enable the
> URN interrupt for pre-11n chips; I'll do that soon.
>
> I'd appreciate it if people would update their devices to the most
> recent -HEAD and do some iperf testing, just to make sure things
> aren't entirely broken. I've done some initial testing on my local
> devices but nothing thorough.
> You'll see TX FIFO, data and delimiter underruns show up in athstats.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Adrian
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