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Making WiFi fast

Making WiFi fast

Posted Nov 10, 2016 2:53 UTC (Thu) by mtaht (guest, #11087)
In reply to: Making WiFi fast by sourcejedi
Parent article: Making WiFi fast

I'd sent a few nits regarding this section of the article to jon earlier, as the description is unclear. Let me get to that in another post.

If I said "there is no need for intelligence in the network hardware" I did not mean that. There is plenty! of room for more intelligence there, just no need (for non-mu-mimo) for more than 2 txops of queuing in the onboard memory, or firmware, or driver.

It is kind of my hope actually that by reducing the max queuing in the wifi chip that we can fit more code into the firmware, like keeping better statistics or putting in better rate control information, or doing saner things with interrupts, or presenting a better API, etc.


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Making WiFi fast

Posted Nov 10, 2016 8:58 UTC (Thu) by sourcejedi (guest, #45153) [Link]

I could have quoted more

> The goal is to have one aggregated frame in the hardware for transmission

- that's all I was really thinking about. If you tell this to original hardware designers, one would expect them to be somewhat surprised. (Or maybe I'm wrong: they'd tell you how ill-suited the network stacks they targetted were for wireless, and it's about time).


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