From: Richard Farina <sidhayn@gmail.com>
To: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Cc: greearb@candelatech.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] This allows ath5k to support virtual STA and AP interfaces.
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:34:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C9CFD4E.10401@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=n9GDjiBxiS0cen2objz+BO9CeC-Uy5c6hVWhS@mail.gmail.com>
Nick Kossifidis wrote:
> 2010/9/23 <greearb@candelatech.com>:
>
>> From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
>>
>> +#define ATH5K_VIF_MAX 2048
>>
>
> This is too much !!! 2048 interfaces with a total of 4 beacon buffers
> 40 rx buffers and 200 tx buffers ? Has anyone tested this ?
>
> Also think about embedded devices, we don't want to waste memory like this...
>
>
As a sanity check, I can say I've seen AP vendors that permit 32 SSIDs
each with a unique BSSID/encryption, etc. I've never seen any device
that does more than that so 32 is a pretty reasonable max vif (the user
can always change it if desired, I'm looking at you openwrt team). Just
my 0.02$
-Rick Farina
>> + struct ieee80211_vif *vifs[ATH5K_VIF_MAX];
>>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-24 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-23 20:07 [PATCH v2] This allows ath5k to support virtual STA and AP interfaces greearb
2010-09-24 17:46 ` Nick Kossifidis
2010-09-24 18:17 ` Ben Greear
2010-09-24 21:49 ` Nick Kossifidis
2010-09-25 9:14 ` Felix Fietkau
2010-09-27 18:57 ` Ben Greear
2010-09-27 19:31 ` Felix Fietkau
2010-09-24 19:34 ` Richard Farina [this message]
2010-09-24 19:40 ` Ben Greear
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