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Message-Id: <201011221141.19250.br1@einfach.org>
Date:	Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:41:19 +0900
From:	Bruno Randolf <br1@...fach.org>
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Cc:	Bob Copeland <me@...copeland.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Jouni Malinen <j@...fi>, linville@...driver.com,
	randy.dunlap@...cle.com, peterz@...radead.org, blp@...stanford.edu,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Lars_Ericsson@...ia.com, kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, kevin.granade@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 3/3] nl80211/mac80211: Report signal average

On Fri November 19 2010 23:04:51 Stefan Richter wrote:
> On Nov 19 Bruno Randolf wrote:
> > Here are the results of iperf -u -c IP -b 30M -t 120
> 
> You only showed that CPU utilization is not so high that an effect on
> network throughput can be seen.  You did not measure what the increase
> in CPU utilization actually was. :-)

True. That's exactly the point: "CPU utilization is not so high that an effect 
on network throughput can be seen", which was what people were worrying about. 
So IMHO: No problem! :) But of course it makes sense to optimize and I'll try 
to do that in subsequent patches.

bruno



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