Am Freitag 22 Oktober 2010 schrieb Ivo Van Doorn: > > Am Donnerstag 21 Oktober 2010 schrieb Scott Nicholas: > >> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Helmut Schaa > >> <helmut.sc...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> > I fully agree. The same also applies to rt2800pci SoCs (rt305x) which are > >> > working quite good already (in terms of WiFi) but also show more CPU > >> > usage > >> > then the legacy drivers. > >> > > >> > IMO it would really make sense to work on improving rt2x00 & mac80211 > >> > instead > >> > of putting much work in a maybe-better-behaving but unmaintainable > >> > driver. > >> > > >> > For example you could start by profiling rt61pci (if your platform > >> > supports > >> > perf counters) to see if you can find any obvious bottlenecks. > >> > >> My platform SoC is MIPS32 4Kc core which does not seem to do > >> profiling... I wonder if some reports made on different machine would > >> help steer me in the correct direction, and if anyone has access to > >> rt61pci that could do this.. > > > > I don't have a rt61pci card but since it shares a lot of base code with > > rt2800pci we should be able to find some suitable starting points. > > > > Ivo, any ideas (or starting points) what we could do to improve CPU usage > > in rt2x00 on embedded systems? > > Sorry, I don't have a good idea for a starting point. Perhaps that with > some profiling I can provide some better ideas on the exact cause.
Ok, no problem. Maybe I can do some profiling for rt2800pci as well ... Helmut _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
