Hi, On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 04:29:34PM -0400, Alexander Aring wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 05:40:26PM +0200, Stefan Schmidt wrote: > > Hello. > > > > > > On 05/14/2018 04:29 PM, Alexander Aring wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 05:21:53PM -0400, Alexander Aring wrote: > > >> This patch adds a new virtual driver mac802154_hwsim which is based on > > >> the fakelb driver. > > >> The fakelb driver will get deprecated and hopefully removed someday. > > >> The main reason for doing this step is to rename the driver to > > >> mac802154_hwsim to have a similar naming scheme as mac80211_hwsim, > > >> which is more popular in the 802.11 wireless word and the idea is the > > >> same behind this driver. > > >> > > >> The new features of this driver are to have knowledge about connected > > >> edges, which can be changed during runtime. This offers a testing > > >> environment for routing protocols e.g. RPL. > > >> The default behaviour is still as fakelb: two radios connected to each > > >> other. New added radios during runtime will not be connected to other > > >> wpan_hwsim instances. > > >> > > >> The netlink api is not namespace aware on purpose, only the registered > > >> wpan_phy's can be moved to namespaces. The physical layer according to > > >> wiresless "air" communication can be handled across namespaces. > > >> > > >> Furthermore the edges can be weighted with the LQI value according IEEE > > >> 802.15.4 which offers additional handling to mark bad or good connection > > >> indicators to other connected virtual phys. > > >> > > >> Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <aring@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > somebody (don't cc him, I think he don't want to be public) reported > > > about issues with hwsim privetly. I will check on it and enable more > > > kernel debugging stuff in kernel hacking feature to see all > > > locking/stack issues. > > > > The positive side is that it got some more testing and you got some problems reported. :-) > > > > My test case is: > > while true;do wpan-hwsim edge del 0 1; sleep 1; wpan-hwsim edge add 0 1;sleep 1;done > forget the sleep here, better without so add/del edge so fast as possible while traffic send. traffic send can be replaced by iperf or netperf. - Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wpan" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
