From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Tomas Winkler <tomasw@gmail.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iwl4965: remove useless network and duplicate checking
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 16:22:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080530202212.GA21212@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1212175035.7238.8.camel@johannes.berg>
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...
--
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-30 20:58 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 [this message]
2008-05-31 19:02 ` Tomas Winkler
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