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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>,
	The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking
	<b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org>
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC 15/23] batman-adv: ELP - send unicast ELP packets for throughput sampling
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:09:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140213100954.GE7193@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52FC981C.50309@meshcoding.com>

> We can't use the hard_iface statistics because we need to know where
> that traffic has been sent to.

Oh, yes, my error.

> However, to go in the direction that you are suggesting, I could use the
> same API I use to read the throughput (cfg80211_get_station()) to also
> read when the last packet was sent to a given peer.
> This information should be good for our purposes, but it means that we
> probe the neighbours right after having read the throughput.

My guess is, there are not many use cases where the hard interface is
used for other traffic as well as BATMAN. So i don't see it as being a
big issue. Maybe put it onto a TODO list once the code has been
merged, to swap to using statistics from lower down in the stack.

   Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-13 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-11 12:48 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC 00/23] Introducing a new routing protocol: B.A.T.M.A.N. V Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-11 12:48 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC 01/23] batman-adv: invoke ogm_schedule() only when the interface is activated Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-11 12:48 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC 02/23] batman-adv: Add hard_iface specific sysfs wrapper macros for UINT Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-11 12:48 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC 03/23] batman-adv: ELP - adding basic infrastructure Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-11 12:48 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC 04/23] batman-adv: ELP - creating neighbor structures Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-11 15:32   ` Andrew Lunn
2014-02-11 16:02     ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-11 16:11       ` Lew Pitcher
2014-02-11 16:26         ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-11 12:48 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC 05/23] batman-adv: ELP - exporting neighbor list via debugfs Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-11 12:48 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC 06/23] batman-adv: ELP - adding sysfs parameter for elp interval Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-11 16:59   ` Andrew Lunn
2014-02-11 17:08     ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-11 12:48 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC 07/23] batman-adv: OGMv2 - add basic infrastructure Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-11 17:12   ` Andrew Lunn
2014-02-11 17:52     ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-12  7:44       ` Andrew Lunn
2014-02-12  7:58         ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-11 12:48 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC 08/23] batman-adv: OGMv2 - implement originators logic Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-11 17:22   ` Andrew Lunn
2014-02-11 17:30     ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-11 12:48 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC 09/23] batman-adv: OGMv2 - purge obsolete potential routers Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-11 12:48 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC 10/23] batman-adv: split name from variable for uint mesh attributes Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-11 12:48 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC 11/23] batman-adv: add throughput attribute to hard_ifaces Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-12  8:42   ` Andrew Lunn
2014-02-11 12:48 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC 12/23] batman-adv: add base throughput attribute Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-12  8:40   ` Andrew Lunn
2014-02-12 12:20     ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-13  9:36       ` Andrew Lunn
2014-02-13  9:53         ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-13  9:57           ` Andrew Lunn
2014-02-11 12:48 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC 13/23] batman-adv: add last_unicast_tx to struct neigh_node_elp Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-12  8:49   ` Andrew Lunn
2014-02-12 12:25     ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-11 12:48 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC 14/23] batman-adv: ELP - compute the metric based on the estimated throughput Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-12  8:58   ` Andrew Lunn
2014-02-12 12:27     ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-12 15:44       ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-13  9:45         ` Andrew Lunn
2014-02-13  9:46           ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-11 12:48 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC 15/23] batman-adv: ELP - send unicast ELP packets for throughput sampling Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-12  9:12   ` Andrew Lunn
2014-02-12 12:12     ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-12 12:54       ` Felix Fietkau
2014-02-12 12:56         ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-12 13:02           ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-13  9:55           ` Andrew Lunn
2014-02-13 10:02             ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-13 10:09               ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2014-02-13 10:13                 ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-11 12:48 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC 16/23] batman-adv: ELP - read estimated throughput from cfg80211 Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-11 12:48 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC 17/23] batman-adv: ELP - implement dead neigh node detection Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-11 12:48 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC 18/23] batman-adv: ELP - use phydev to determine link characteristics Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-13  8:17   ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-13  8:19     ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-13 10:52   ` Andrew Lunn
2014-02-13 11:02     ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-13 11:44       ` Andrew Lunn
2014-02-14  8:24         ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-14 17:38           ` Andrew Lunn
2014-02-14 17:46             ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-14 18:18               ` Andrew Lunn
2014-02-14 19:18                 ` Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-11 12:48 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC 19/23] batman-adv: add bat_neigh_free() API Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-11 12:48 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC 20/23] batman-adv: B.A.T.M.A.N. V - implement " Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-11 12:48 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC 21/23] batman-adv: B.A.T.M.A.N. V - implement neigh_is_equiv_or_better API Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-11 12:48 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC 22/23] batman-adv: B.A.T.M.A.N. V - implement bat_neigh_cmp API Antonio Quartulli
2014-02-11 12:48 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC 23/23] batman-adv: B.A.T.M.A.N. V - implement bat_orig_print API Antonio Quartulli

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