[Make-wifi-fast] what is the state of the airtime fairness patches?

[David Lang]

Is there any ath10k hardware that is especially recommended? The Scale network 
is currently all WNDR3800, but we would like to get a handful of -ac routers to 
see how much of our userbase is using -ac equipment

David Lang

  On Fri, 19 Jan 2018, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:

> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 10:58:49 +0100
> From: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk>
> To: David Lang <david at lang.hm>, make-wifi-fast at lists.bufferbloat.net
> Subject: Re: [Make-wifi-fast] what is the state of the airtime fairness
>     patches?
> 
> Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> writes:
>
>>> Is there anything you would like me to gather in this environment?
>>
>> Hmm, things that might be interesting:
>>
>> - Distribution of client capabilities (5/2.4Ghz, MIMO mode, n/ac,
>>   achieved rates, etc. - however much data you can reasonably gather)
>>
>> - Lasthop latency experienced by the clients (you could get this by
>>   capturing TCP handshakes and measuring the ACK-SYNACK delay, as shown
>>   in Figure 1 of this paper:
>>   https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2999572.2999603) - this could
>>   give an indication of bloat in the client drivers.
>>
>> - QoS usage (how much traffic is sent on each of the VO/VI/BE/BK
>>   queues).
>
> A few more things for the list:
>
> - The number of stations that have packets queued at the AP over time.
>
> - Distribution of traffic between protocols (v4/v6, TCP/UDP/others).
>
> -Toke
>