Re: [Bluez-devel] Inquiry cache management (clock offset)

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Marco,

> I have read a portion of bluez kernel sources and I have noticed, if I'm
> not wrong, that bluez looks up the inquiry cache before establish an ACL
> link, in order to get the clock offset of the remote device (returned
> from a previuos inquiry). This is a great features to speed up the
> paging process.
> 
> However, the scope of the inquiry cache is bounded to the interface that
> do an inquiry. So, suppose that I have 2 interfaces: the "interface A"
> does an inquiry and, after, the "interface B" creates a baseband
> connection. This last interface (B) sends an HCI "create connection"
> command with the default clock offset instead of the real clock offset,
> as determined by interface A.
> 
> Now, If we suppose that I can't inquiry and create the connection with
> the same interface, I think there are two solutions:
> - Kernel side: patch the kernel and let hci_inquiry_cache_lookup() to
> lookup the inquiry cache of each interface
> - Application side: create a baseband connection with
> hci_create_connection() before establish a L2CAP/RFCOMM communication
> 
> What are the main advantages/disadvantages of the above solutions?
> Do you have any suggestion?

the main disadvantage is that it gives you nothing. You can't move the
clock offset around from adapter A to adapter B. As the word says, it is
a clock _offset_ and this means it depends on the local clock on the
chip. So a received clock offset on adapter A is invalid on adapter B
and it might happen that the connection establishment takes longer than
if you would have used no clock offset at all.

Regards

Marcel



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