Re: [PATCH v7 3/3] nl80211/mac80211: Report signal average

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Fri Nov 19 2010 - 13:57:28 EST


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

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