From: "Tomas Winkler" <tomasw@gmail.com>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: "Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"Zhu Yi" <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iwl4965: remove useless network and duplicate checking
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 22:02:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1ba2fa240805311202t3a88800m131d433cbe9ce9e2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080530202212.GA21212@tuxdriver.com>
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:22 PM, John W. Linville
<linville@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 09:17:15PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
>>
>> > > The iwlwifi drivers go to great lengths to avoid passing packets to
>> > > mac80211 they think shouldn't go there, while mac80211 can (of course!)
>> > > handle them very well.
>> > >
>> > > Especially in the case of duplicate packets this is interesting
>> > > because it's such a performance hog (especially for IBSS networks)
>> > > while mac80211 does that work on the side without much effort.
>> > >
>> > > This patch removes all that and leaves only what is absolutely
>> > > necessary for the hardware.
>>
>>
>> > Looks good to me. let me just repost it rebased over our latest code.
>>
>> ping? This one no longer applies.
>
> Was going to ask about that one myself...
I know that's I wanted to delay it. I preferred to rebase one patch
then many other. I will release it in next round, still have some code
movement. It also get proper testing.
Tomas
> --
> John W. Linville
> linville@tuxdriver.com
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-31 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-22 9:03 [PATCH] iwl4965: remove useless network and duplicate checking Johannes Berg
2008-05-22 10:41 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-05-30 19:17 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-30 20:22 ` John W. Linville
2008-05-31 19:02 ` Tomas Winkler [this message]
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