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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Cc: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>,
	linville@tuxdriver.com, randy.dunlap@oracle.com,
	br1@thinktube.com, peterz@infradead.org, blp@cs.stanford.edu,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Lars_Ericsson@telia.com, stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de,
	kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	kevin.granade@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 3/3] nl80211/mac80211: Report signal average
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:58:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1290193116.3768.8.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101116093743.GA21872@jm.kir.nu>

On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 11:37 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:00:35PM +0900, Bruno Randolf wrote:
> > Extend nl80211 to report an exponential weighted moving average (EWMA) of the
> > signal value. Since the signal value usually fluctuates between different
> > packets, an average can be more useful than the value of the last packet.
> > 
> > This uses the recently added generic EWMA library function.
> 
> Isn't that generic EWMA library function making this much more CPU
> intensive than necessary?

John, is there any reason you completely ignored Jouni's feedback here?
This wasn't addressed in v8.

johannes


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-19 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-12  3:00 [PATCH v7 0/3] Generic exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) Bruno Randolf
2010-11-12  3:00 ` [PATCH v7 1/3] Add generic exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) function Bruno Randolf
2010-11-12  3:00 ` [PATCH v7 2/3] ath5k: Use generic EWMA library Bruno Randolf
2010-11-12  3:00 ` [PATCH v7 3/3] nl80211/mac80211: Report signal average Bruno Randolf
2010-11-16  9:37   ` Jouni Malinen
2010-11-17  8:28     ` Bruno Randolf
2010-11-17 16:16       ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-17 23:11         ` Bob Copeland
2010-11-19  8:49           ` Bruno Randolf
2010-11-19 14:04             ` Stefan Richter
2010-11-22  2:41               ` Bruno Randolf
2010-11-22  7:26                 ` Stefan Richter
2010-11-19 17:52             ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-22  2:36               ` Bruno Randolf
2010-11-19  9:07           ` Bruno Randolf
2010-11-19 12:16             ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-19 22:28             ` Bob Copeland
2010-11-19 23:01               ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-02  8:12                 ` Bruno Randolf
2010-11-19 18:58     ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2010-11-22 18:46       ` John W. Linville
2010-11-20 16:45   ` Brian Prodoehl
2010-11-24 16:24   ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-24 19:05     ` Ben Greear

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