[Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH v3 3/6] mac80211: Add airtime accounting and scheduling to TXQs

[Dave Taht]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 4:52 PM Simon Barber <simon at superduper.net> wrote:
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> Low-e glass, it’s a thin metallic film used to reflect infra-red to keep heat in or out. Totally blocks/reflects RF.

Very cool. I imagine it's hell on cell too?

I can see this stuff becoming very popular in places where keeping the
good wifi in is important. Could cover floors and ceilings with it to.
Cars could be tempest rated...

/me goes looking for stock to buy

> Simon
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> On Nov 19, 2018, at 4:20 PM, Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> wrote:
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> On 11/19/2018 04:13 PM, Dave Taht wrote:
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> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 3:56 PM Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> wrote:
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> On 11/19/2018 03:47 PM, Dave Taht wrote:
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> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 3:30 PM Simon Barber <simon at superduper.net> wrote:
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> On Nov 19, 2018, at 2:44 PM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> wrote:
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> Dave Taht <dave at taht.net> writes:
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> Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> writes:
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> Felix Fietkau <nbd at nbd.name> writes:
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> On 2018-11-14 18:40, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
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> This part doesn't really make much sense to me, but maybe I'm
> misunderstanding how the code works.
> Let's assume we have a driver like ath9k or mt76, which tries to keep a
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> ….
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> Well, there's going to be a BQL-like queue limit (but for airtime) on
> top, which drivers can opt-in to if the hardware has too much queueing.
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> Very happy to read this - I first talked to Dave Taht about the need for Time Queue Limits more than 5 years ago!
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> Michal faked up a dql estimator 3 (?) years ago. it worked.
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> http://blog.cerowrt.org/post/dql_on_wifi_2/
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> As a side note, in *any* real world working mu-mimo situation at any
> scale, on any equipment, does anyone have any stats on how often the
> feature is actually used and useful?
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> My personal guess, from looking at the standard, was in home
> scenarios, usage would be about... 0, and in a controlled environment
> in a football stadium, quite a lot.
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> In a office or apartment complex, I figured interference and so forth
> would make it a negative benefit due to retransmits.
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> I felt when that part of the standard rolled around... that mu-mimo
> was an idea that should never have escaped the lab. I can be convinced
> by data, that we can aim for a higher goal here. But it would be
> comforting to have a measured non-lab, real-world, at real world
> rates, result for it, on some platform, of it actually being useful.
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> We're working on building a lab with 20 or 30 mixed 'real' devices
> using various different /AC NICs (QCA wave2 on OpenWRT, Fedora, realtek USB 8812au on OpenWRT, Fedora,
> and some Intel NICs in NUCs on Windows, and maybe more).  I'm not actually sure if that realtek
>  or the NUCs can do MU-MIMO or not, but the QCA NICs will be able to.  It should be at least somewhat similar
> to a classroom environment or coffee shop.
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> In the last 3 coffee shops I went to, I could hear over 30 APs on
> competing SSIDs, running G, N, and AC,
> occupying every available channel.
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> I especially like when someone uses channel 3 because, I guess, they
> think it is un-used :)
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> I'm not sure if this was a fluke or not, but at Starbucks recently I sat outside,
> right next to their window, and could not scan their AP at all.  Previously, I sat
> inside, 3 feet away through the glass, and got great signal.  I wonder what that was
> all about!  Maybe special tinting that blocks RF?  Or just dumb luck of some sort.
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> Thanks,
> Ben
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> --
> Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
> Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com
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