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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Optimizing performance for lots of virtual stations.
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:50:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51435F59.7050403@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <514356F3.4030408@candelatech.com>

On 03/15/2013 10:14 AM, Ben Greear wrote:
> I probably should have done this first of course..but here is a 'perf top' on
> the station machine (50 TCP streams transmitting on each of 50 stations,
> and 78 associated-but-mostly-idle stations:
>
> Looks like sta_info_get would be a good place to start :)
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     PerfTop:    1890 irqs/sec  kernel:87.9%  exact:  0.0% [1000Hz cycles],  (all, 2 CPUs)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>               samples  pcnt function                        DSO
>               _______ _____ _______________________________ ______________
>
>               2261.00 20.8% sta_info_get                    [mac80211]

Ahh, crap...I see the problem.  The 'sta->addr' is the MAC of the VAP,
so if I have 100 stations all connected to the same AP, then the hashing
is worthless and just ends up being a linear search.

Probably not going to be fun to fix that!

Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


      reply	other threads:[~2013-03-15 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-14 17:22 Optimizing performance for lots of virtual stations Ben Greear
2013-03-14 23:12 ` Felix Fietkau
2013-03-14 23:18   ` Ben Greear
2013-03-15  1:44     ` Felix Fietkau
2013-03-15  3:26       ` Ben Greear
2013-03-15 17:14         ` Ben Greear
2013-03-15 17:50           ` Ben Greear [this message]

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