ath10k IBSS and A-MSDU throuput

[Hannes Harms]

To sniff frames on air I would need additional hardware, right?
Or maybe there is a possibility to debug  in / outgoing  amsdu frames in 
the ath10k driver?
Unfortunately my kernel programming skills are very limited,
but maybe I will continue testing next week.

Thanks,
Hannes

Am 29.04.2016 um 18:21 schrieb Ben Greear:
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> On 04/29/2016 08:51 AM, Harms, Hannes wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I have set up two Compex WLE900 in ad-hoc mode, 80MHz channel width, 
>> channel 100.
>> I am using kernel 3.17 from Gateworks for imx6 and
>> my own compat_wirless (4.4.2) with all patches from Candela for 
>> ath10k and all patches for mac80211 from the
>> Candela 4.4 kernel tree.
>>
>> The upload for TCP is about 200 MBit/s and the download is about 250 
>> MBit/s, tested with iperf3.
>>
>> Now I am trying to enable A-MSDU as described in the firmware release 
>> 10.1.467-ct-15 from Candela,
>> but I can not measure anydifference  in throughput.
>>
>> Could anyone confirm that A-MSDU is really working with IBSS?
>
> You can sniff it and see if you can sniff amsdu frames on air?
>
> I only tested it a bit when developing that feature for another user
> (who eventually decided to not use it anyway since it required linux
> kernel hacks to make it work), so possibly there was a regression...
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>