From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937204Ab3DJR7T (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:59:19 -0400 Received: from mail.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.172]:36048 "EHLO ns3.lanforge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934904Ab3DJR7S (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:59:18 -0400 Message-ID: <5165A874.50804@candelatech.com> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:59:16 -0700 From: Ben Greear Organization: Candela Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130311 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" CC: linux-wireless , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Jitter and latency benchmarks with netlink / nl80211 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/10/2013 10:55 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > Curious if anyone has worked on latency and jitter benchmarks in using > netlink, specifically with nl80211. Has anyone benchmarked this? Ben, > have you? If not for nl80211 perhaps this has been done before for > other netlink families? You mean timing related to netlink configuration/report requests? We have lots of ways to measure wifi packet throughput latencies and jitter (to/from userspace and/or to/from pktgen), but it doesn't use netlink.... Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com