From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: David Lang <david@lang.hm>
Cc: cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] MTU question
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 17:30:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19788.1423780204@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Feb 2015 13:46:47 -0800." <alpine.DEB.2.02.1502121345180.27379@nftneq.ynat.uz>
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On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 13:46:47 -0800, David Lang said:
> It occured to me as I was driving home last night that if the APs are working to
> combine packets into a single transmission due to the high overhead of
> independent transmissions, would it possibly improve wifi performance to just
> configure a larger MTU?
>
> Has anyone done any experimentation in this area?
It tends to totally ruin latency. Go read up on why things like ssh turn off
Nagle. I have no reason to expect the same "leaving stuff in a buffer while we
wait for more data to make a full packet" will work any better on Wifi.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-12 21:46 David Lang
2015-02-12 22:23 ` Dave Taht
2015-02-13 20:41 ` dpreed
2015-02-13 21:03 ` Dave Taht
2015-02-12 22:30 ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
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