[Make-wifi-fast] Make-wifi-fast Digest, Vol 29, Issue 11

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen toke at toke.dk
Tue Oct 3 07:33:20 EDT 2017


Jon Pike <jonpike54 at gmail.com> writes:

> Now I'm wondering if the missing latency performance will reappear...
> ;-)
>
> Actually,  wanted to ask again exactly what kind of functionality the patch
> enables.  I'd like to pass an accurate impression along to the custom C7
> build group on LEDE Forum, which would get it a lot of test experience.
> https://forum.lede-project.org/t/gcc-6-3-build-optimized-tp-link-archer-c7-v2-ac1750-lede-firmware/1382
>
> Just by chance, the last official build was a day before Toke put up the
> patch. There are nightly builds, which I assume would have it included now,
> but I imagine the majority just use the official.
> If I'm going to tell people about this, I want to be on target with what it
> will do for them.

Well, it'll enable the bufferbloat mitigation patches for ath10k on the
C7. Which should hopefully result in lower latency while the WiFi is
saturated. However, I don't have any specific benchmarks to point to...

-Toke


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