Return-path: 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> (sfid-20130410_195937_619910_0664CEBF) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:59:16 -0700 From: Ben Greear 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 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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