[net2-wg] 600 pps, high throughput

[Jonathan Hui]

I'm sorry... answering Phil's request to state some tradeoffs is moot and silly?

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Jonathan W. Hui
jwhui at cs.berkeley.edu
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jwhui/

On 3/13/06, Joe Polastre <joe at polastre.com> wrote:
> This is so silly.  The only people using DMA in TinyOS are Moteiv,
> Ben, August, and a bunch of mechanical engineers in Paul Wright's
> group.  If you're using DMA, commit the code and let people use it.
> If not, again, this is a moot and sily conversation.
>
> -Joe
>
> On 3/13/06, Jonathan Hui <jwhui at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> > On 3/13/06, Joe Polastre <joe at polastre.com> wrote:
> > > If you are sampling at a really high rate constantly, you are no
> > > longer a low power sensor network which makes this conversation moot.
> > >
> > > You have a choice:
> > > (1) use DMA on the radio
> > > -OR-
> > > (2) use DMA on your sensors, where sensors is plural.
> >
> > This is exactly the choice I was conveying. Hence the tradeoff that I mentioned.
> >
> > > I can't believe how unnecessarily complicated things have become when
> > > a simple piece of additional hardware simply solve the problem, or
> > > when you can tradeoff one resource for another.
> >
> > It was never complicated. I was just stating a tradeoff that one has
> > to consider. If you have a choice, then its an issue to consider.
> >
> > --
> > Jonathan W. Hui
> > jwhui at cs.berkeley.edu
> > http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jwhui/
> >
>