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

[David Lang]

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