ACK: [PATCH][SRU/Xenial] Fix Killer 1535 wifi speed on 5G network
Seth Forshee
seth.forshee at canonical.com
Thu Jun 1 19:52:20 UTC 2017
On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 09:35:02AM +0800, AceLan Kao wrote:
> [Impact]
> The TX throughput on QCA6174 Wireless card (Killer Wireless 1535)
> under 5Ghz network is poor, the test result is around 10 ~ 20 Mbits/sec.
>
> [Fix]
> The fix is suggested by Qualcomm, and it works.
>
> [Test Case]
> Without the patch, the 5GHz network speed is pretty low
> 11n
> 0.0-120.1 sec 271 MBytes 18.9 Mbits/sec
> 11AC
> 0.0-120.2 sec 141 MBytes 9.86 Mbits/sec
>
> After applied the patch
> 11n
> 0.0-120.0 sec 2.04 GBytes 146 Mbits/sec
> 11AC
> 0.0-120.0 sec 1.17 GBytes 83.6 Mbits/sec
>
> [MISC]
> Qualcomm doesn't want to upstream this fix, and the ath10k driver architecture
> changes a lot after kernel 4.4 and can't apply this fix. So, I would suggest
> to have this fix as SAUCE patch only included in Ubuntu kernel.
>
> AceLan Kao (1):
> UBUNTU: SAUCE: ath10k: fix the wifi speed issue for kill 1535
Looks safe, positive testing.
Acked-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at canonical.com>
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