Dear Adrian Chadd,

Thanks for your reply. It's correct that USB may introduce some delays, but in 
our experiment we use mini-pcie devices indeed...


Cesar









At 2016-06-29 04:05:32, "Adrian Chadd" <adr...@freebsd.org> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>can you try this using pci/pcie devices instead of USB? There may be
>USB scheduling things in the way.
>
>On 27 June 2016 at 20:55, Cesar <caesa...@163.com> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> We’ve recently tried to test packet injection performace in ath9k monitor
>> mode. We set 2 laptops in monitor mode , PC 1 send a 500 Byte packets out,
>> and PC 2 return a 500 Bytes packet back at once when it receives the packet
>> of PC 1. Then we measured the RTT time and found it's about 1000us !!!
>>
>> Test environment:
>> NIC: AR9287
>> driver: ath9k
>> system: ubuntu 14.04 with kernel 3.14.57
>> send rate : at a fixed rate 54Mb
>>
>>
>> We tried to send packets as "low" as possible in driver stack, and we're
>> sure that we disabled the CCA and backoff using flags below:
>>
>> AR_DIAG_FORCE_CH_IDLE_HIGH
>> AR_DIAG_IGNORE_VIRT_CS
>> AR_D_GBL_IFS_MISC_IGNORE_BACKOFF
>>
>> besides we change the aifs to 1 and cwmin cwmax to 0 in ath_txq_setup to
>> ensure there's no backoff. we even put our laptaps to a underground garage
>> where channel is almost clean.But the test results is still about 1000us....
>>
>> We've been stucked for serveral months, Any suggestion?
>> Any feedback welcome...
>> Thnkz in advance!!!
>>
>> Cesar
>>
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