[Make-wifi-fast] [Cerowrt-devel] wifi airtime fairness patches could use eyeballs and testing

Dave Taht dave.taht at gmail.com
Sun Aug 14 19:02:52 EDT 2016


On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 12:49 AM, Aaron Wood <woody77 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 3:21 PM, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Ideas as to why crypto chops off so much throughput in the first place
>> (from 120mbit to 80), and as to what else to poke into with crypto on,
>> would be nice.
>
>
> Crypto as in WPA2?  If 1 client is fine, but multiple clients is not, my
> guess is that changing the AES key in the crypto accelerator is
> slow/difficult, and so what you're seeing is the lost time as it switches
> security contexts.

1 client suffers degradation with more than one flow in flight, being
fq'd, and crypted with wpa2.

I'll have plots in the morning.

> -Aaron



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