From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:4342 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753269AbYE3U6V (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 16:58:21 -0400 Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 16:22:12 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Johannes Berg Cc: Tomas Winkler , linux-wireless , Zhu Yi Subject: Re: [PATCH] iwl4965: remove useless network and duplicate checking Message-ID: <20080530202212.GA21212@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20080530_225825_850223_E728C2C7) References: <1211446997.3698.47.camel@johannes.berg> <1ba2fa240805220341g69f3acb0qf03594f541232337@mail.gmail.com> <1212175035.7238.8.camel@johannes.berg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1212175035.7238.8.camel@johannes.berg> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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