Linux 4.10's ath9k Driver Should Have Lower Latency & Less Bufferbloat

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 4.10's ath9k Driver Should Have Lower Latency & Less Bufferbloat

As part of the ongoing battle with bufferbloat are some improvements to the ath9k WiFi driver with the Linux 4.10 kernel...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.10-Ath9k-Bufferbloat

[Wilfred]

Since I own such a device I like this. Now just for all the other wireless chips. Perhaps also ath10k soon?

[Mangix]

FWIW LEDE currently includes these patches.

[dtaht]

for details see: https://lwn.net/Articles/705884/

4.11 will have airtime fairness, also in that article. code landed in lede dec 24th.

Some ath10k chips are semi-supported now. Work has come to a halt, on my front.

[enihcam]

How to benchmark this?

[Mangix]

More info: https://blog.tohojo.dk/2016/10/talk-...rt-summit.html

[tiltkoko]

They reverted the "ath9k: Add airtime fairness scheduler" yesterday, was not stable yet..

[boxie]

How to benchmark this?

with the new iperf and netperf tests in the phoronix test suite

[Azrael5]

it seems a really excellent news.

By the way, this improvements will affect the pci latency timer of the pci version? How this new approach works?

[davidbepo]

what about ath10k?