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From: David Lang <david@lang.hm>
To: Bob McMahon <bob.mcmahon@broadcom.com>
Cc: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>,
	 Make-Wifi-fast <make-wifi-fast@lists.bufferbloat.net>,
	 BBR Development <bbr-dev@googlegroups.com>,
	 bloat <bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Bloat] [Make-wifi-fast] [bbr-dev] Aggregating without bloating - hard times for tcp and wifi
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 12:03:54 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.2211221202210.4070@nftneq.ynat.uz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHb6LvrK_exkt_rbukYkF4_hwPXyy9T+ZNGzdK79x91RrK49Mg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 22 Nov 2022, Bob McMahon via Make-wifi-fast wrote:

> Finally, many (most?) APs are forwarding and feeding packets at at the
> hardware level so not sure that the linux stack matters as much for an AP
> based analysis, particularly when considering multi user transmissions,
> i.e. multiple WiFi clients are active and sharing TXOPs.

APs forward packets within the switch at the hardware level, but the radios have 
to go through the CPU, so any wired <-> wireless needs to go through the CPU, 
and I would be incredibly surprised if the wifi chips did wireless <-> wireless 
routing at the hardware level.

David Lang

  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-22 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-22  6:04 [Bloat] " Dave Taht
2022-11-22 19:42 ` [Bloat] [bbr-dev] " Bob McMahon
2022-11-22 20:03   ` David Lang [this message]
2022-11-22 20:13     ` [Bloat] [Make-wifi-fast] " Bob McMahon
2022-11-22 20:16       ` David Lang
2022-11-22 20:28         ` Bob McMahon
2022-11-22 20:48           ` Bob McMahon
2022-11-22 20:10   ` [Bloat] " Neal Cardwell
2022-11-22 20:53     ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2022-11-22 21:00       ` Bob McMahon
2022-11-23 13:50         ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2022-11-23 20:36           ` Bob McMahon
     [not found]     ` <003d01d8ffc5$2ace1a20$806a4e60$@umt.edu.pk>
2022-11-24 16:23       ` Dave Taht

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