On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 08:37:04PM -0700, Simon Barber wrote: > Doing this will slow down the qdisc - it does already run an external > classifier first if you install one. On typical laptops performance is > not a problem, but one common usage does have problems. The performance > of a wireless home gateway based on a simple linux kernel configuration > (NAT, iptables, bridging) is significantly slower than a VxWorks based > one. With the arrival of 802.11n improving the performance of the stack > is very important. The VxWorks solution may be less flexible in terms of > what it can do, but it will allow the full 802.11n bandwidth to be > achieved on slower embedded CPUs than Linux does. How to improve the > linux kernel networking to improve it's efficiency here is a hard > problem.
First do it right, then tune performance. If you aren't doing it right, then who cares about VxWorks. We also need 802.11 to register as a real protocol, rather than faking ethernet. David Miller did an example stub: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/patchkits/2.6/davem-p80211.tar.bz2 Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
