Re: Low latency communication over wifi

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Sat, 2015-09-26 at 12:24 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> That would be equivalent to ping -Q, right? It does not seem to have
> any effect :-(. I'd expect at least local machine to use shorter waits
> for medium, and thus drop packets instead of waiting.

Correct. But it won't *drop* packets, it just increases the chances of
getting medium access.

> > # you have to add some magic for matching your data
> > e.g. $IPT -t mangle -I OUTPUT -j DSCP --set-dscp-class CS7
> 
> Again, this is ping -Q equivalent, right? I was doing

Yes.

> ping -c 300 -i .2 -Q $[56*4] -s 500 amd
> 300 packets transmitted, 300 received, 0% packet loss, time 60989ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2.155/8.599/44.475/5.677 ms
> 300 packets transmitted, 300 received, +1 duplicates, 0% packet loss, time 61030ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2.158/23.809/300.956/49.969 ms, pipe 2
> 
> I would expect packet loss, but got long delays instead.

See above :)

> > also you should consider force the ACK-timing to 450m / Class1
> > and forbid retransmission in minstrel
> 
> Yes, disabling retransmission would be useful. How would I do that?
> 
It won't work on Intel devices though since they don't use
minstrel(_ht)

johannes