Re: [RFC] mac80211: soft scan vs latency

[Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:25:04PM +0100, Andreas Hartmann wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:01:02 +0100
> Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 03:55:58PM +0100, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> > > Except latency, patch perhaps also improve throughput, since we
> > > spend more time on-channel while scanning. But I'm not quite sure,
> > > since overall scanning time is bigger. I did not test influence of
> > > the patch on throughput.
> > > 
> > > I tested patch by doing:
> > > 
> > > while true; do iw dev wlan0 scan; sleep 3; done > /dev/null
> > 
> > I can see slight throughput improvement with patch, measured by scp:
> > 
> > Upload to periodical scanning machine:
> > scp -B Fedora-18-Beta-i686-Live-Desktop.iso stasiu@192.168.1.105:~/
> > 
> > Unpatched: 3.9MB/s   03:15    
> > Patched:   4.3MB/s   02:58
> 
> W/o any scan?
> 
> > Download from periodical scanning machine:
> > scp -B stasiu@192.168.1.105:~/Fedora-18-Beta-i686-Live-Desktop.iso .
> > 
> > Unpatched: 5.5MB/s   02:17
> > Patched:   6.2MB/s   02:02
> 
> W/o any scan?

On target machine I performed periodical scan every 3 second i.e.
run command: "while true; do iw dev wlan0 scan; sleep 3; done" .
Source machine was connected to AP by wire.

Stanislaw