[Click] polling extension for madwifi drivers

[Torquato Bertani]

I'm agree with Nicola. I tested that a low power CPU (embedded with
cpu 166-266MHz) running click is not enough to manage all pkts that a
wifi device can generate/transmit. With a complicated click
configuration my pkt handling limits is the cpu.

I think that between monitor mode and adhoc there isn't a big
difference but I never did tests , so I could be wrong in that.

Torquato



On 1/19/07, Nicola Arnoldi <nicola.arnoldi at dit.unitn.it> wrote:
> The question came from the fact that, while running click on embedded
> systems (small nodes like meraki nodes, or other common accesspoints)
> it took the 99% of the CPU.
> I guessed that it was because it issues a lot of interrupts to the
> CPU to poll packets.
>
> I have to point out that I run a sligthly modified version of roofnet
> which uses devices in ad-hoc mode instead of monitoring mode, which
> may be the cause...maybe the roofnet guys can tell us more about that.
>
> Can it be that running in ad-hoc instead of monitoring makes click
> more CPU-hungry???
>
> Nicola
>
>
> Il giorno 19/gen/07, alle ore 18:49, Eddie Kohler ha scritto:
>
> > (But I could be wrong.)
> >
> >
> > Nicola Arnoldi wrote:
> >> Any way to have the device polling capabilities for madwifi drivers?
> >> Or have they been already implemented?
> >> Il giorno ven, 12/01/2007 alle 11.48 -0700, Qinghua(Kevin) Ye ha
> >> scritto:
> >>> Hi, All,
> >>> We did some work on the extension of polling support on released
> >>> broadcom tg3 driver in Linux 2.6.16.13 source packet, and seems
> >>> work well on our AMD opteron box. Please refer to the attached
> >>> packet. Any comments and improvements are welcome.
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Qinghua(Kevin) Ye
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