On 03/15/2013 10:14 AM, Ben Greear wrote:
I probably should have done this first of course..but here is a 'perf top' on
the station machine (50 TCP streams transmitting on each of 50 stations,
and 78 associated-but-mostly-idle stations:
Looks like sta_info_get would be a good place to start :)
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PerfTop: 1890 irqs/sec kernel:87.9% exact: 0.0% [1000Hz cycles], (all, 2 CPUs)
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samples pcnt function DSO
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2261.00 20.8% sta_info_get [mac80211]
Ahh, crap...I see the problem. The 'sta->addr' is the MAC of the VAP,
so if I have 100 stations all connected to the same AP, then the hashing
is worthless and just ends up being a linear search.
Probably not going to be fun to fix that!
Ben
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Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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