From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.183]:33043 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756901AbYEaTCi (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 May 2008 15:02:38 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id j37so182063waf.23 for ; Sat, 31 May 2008 12:02:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1ba2fa240805311202t3a88800m131d433cbe9ce9e2@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20080531_210257_704531_7C8A9745) Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 22:02:38 +0300 From: "Tomas Winkler" To: "John W. Linville" Subject: Re: [PATCH] iwl4965: remove useless network and duplicate checking Cc: "Johannes Berg" , linux-wireless , "Zhu Yi" In-Reply-To: <20080530202212.GA21212@tuxdriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <1211446997.3698.47.camel@johannes.berg> <1ba2fa240805220341g69f3acb0qf03594f541232337@mail.gmail.com> <1212175035.7238.8.camel@johannes.berg> <20080530202212.GA21212@tuxdriver.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:22 PM, John W. Linville 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 >