[Make-wifi-fast] [Bloat] A quick report from the WISPA conference

[Bob McMahon]

Iperf on the Router/AP CPU sources and sinks traffic. The Router/AP
hardware acceleration forwards traffic. These can be very different logic
subsystems.

One can sometimes connect a computer to the wired LAN port and measure
traffic between WiFi and the wired LAN port to get forwarding performance.

Also, the iperf 2 <https://sourceforge.net/projects/iperf2/> bounceback
feature, using low duty cycle traffic, may be sufficient to give WiFi
responsiveness metrics even with the Router CPU sourcing and sinking the
traffic.  Your mileage will vary applies.

Bob

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 8:57 AM Sebastian Moeller via Make-wifi-fast <
make-wifi-fast at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:

> Hi Jeremy,
>
> On 20 October 2022 16:50:43 CEST, Jeremy Harris via Make-wifi-fast <
> make-wifi-fast at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
> >On 20/10/2022 10:01, Sebastian Moeller via Make-wifi-fast wrote:
> >> [SM] IIRC some router SoC allow higher routing throughput than they can
> sink or source bulk traffic with iperf. This is especially pronounced in
> routers that use soft- and especially hardware acceleration
> >
> >Why do you think that iperf traffic will not be accelerated?
>
> [SM] Because for sending and receiving data in the iperf application the
> CPU has to handle the traffic, while accelerator mainly work by having the
> CPU touch the data as little as possible/not at all.
>
> Regards
>         Sebastian
>
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