[Bloat] [Make-wifi-fast] [bbr-dev] Aggregating without bloating - hard times for tcp and wifi

David Lang david at lang.hm
Tue Nov 22 15:03:54 EST 2022


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


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