On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 17:38 +0200, Dani Camps wrote: > Dear all, > > I am testing a simple 1-hop mesh network over wmediumd. The PHY rate I > have configured is 54 Mbps, and there is no loss, however the max > throughput I get is around 14 Mbps. Without wmediumd I get around 30 > Mbps, which seems reasonable given the 54 PHY rate. As I noted above > there is no loss probability configured in wmediumd. > > My impression is that the performance drop is due to the overhead of > switching between kernel and user space in wmediumd, however it > surprises me that the penalty is so high. > > Has anyone had a similar experience? Could there be a way to overcome > this bottleneck? What kind of system are you running on? The virtual PHY rate isn't taken into account at all, so you should see far higher performance. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
