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Date:      Thu, 16 May 2013 07:20:50 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Lev Serebryakov <lev@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [rft] improved hostap powersave / ps-poll support is now in HEAD
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oh, when it drops to non-N mode, it likely did that because it failed
to successfully transmit a BAR frame to the receiver.

can you provide me the whole log? I'll go see what's going on.

Thanks!




adrian

On 16 May 2013 02:09, Lev Serebryakov <lev@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hello, Adrian.
> You wrote 15 =D0=BC=D0=B0=D1=8F 2013 =D0=B3., 22:34:26:
>
> AC> I've just committed my first pass of improved power save and ps-poll
> AC> support in AP mode to -HEAD.
> AC> There's a bunch of corner cases I'm trying to solve but I'd rather
> AC> this be in the driver now rather than later.
> AC> So please, update to -HEAD and give this a whirl. Let me know if
> AC> things are better, worse or the same.
>  r250675, my ususal test (300 mbit AP -> Client).
> Looks good. First of all, it gives me stable 100-150Mbit, so it could
> negotiate HT rates again without TCP :)
>
>
>  And it sustain for 600 seconds in this mode, which was impossible
> before.
>
>  There was several such messages:
>
> May 16 12:57:31 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_tx_tid_bar_suspend: tid=3D0xfff=
fff8000d82230, bar_wait=3D0, bar_tx=3D0, called
> May 16 12:57:31 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_tx_tid_bar_tx_ready: c4:85:08:3=
f:9e:c2: tid=3D0xffffff8000d82230 (0), bar ready
> May 16 12:57:31 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_tx_tid_bar_tx: c4:85:08:3f:9e:c=
2: tid=3D0xffffff8000d82230, called
> May 16 12:57:31 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_tx_tid_bar_tx: c4:85:08:3f:9e:c=
2: tid=3D0xffffff8000d82230, new BAW left edge=3D676
> May 16 12:57:31 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_bar_response: c4:85:08:3f:9e:c2=
: called; tap=3D0xffffff8000d7f3a0, atid=3D0xffffff8000d82230, txa_tid=3D0,=
 atid->tid=3D0, status=3D0, attempts=3D1
> May 16 12:57:31 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_tx_tid_bar_unsuspend: c4:85:08:=
3f:9e:c2: tid=3D0xffffff8000d82230, called
>
>  But no full stalls.
>
>  I have dev.ath.0.debug=3D0x900000020
>
>  A lot of such messages in log when notebook is on battery (no such
> messages when it is on AC power):
>
> May 16 12:51:12 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_node_set_tim: c4:85:08:3f:9e:c2=
: enable=3D1, enabling TIM
> May 16 12:51:12 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_node_powersave: c4:85:08:3f:9e:=
c2: enable=3D0
> May 16 12:51:12 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_node_set_tim: c4:85:08:3f:9e:c2=
: enable=3D0, an_pwrsave=3D0, disabling
> May 16 12:51:18 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_node_powersave: c4:85:08:3f:9e:=
c2: enable=3D1
> May 16 12:51:18 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_node_set_tim: c4:85:08:3f:9e:c2=
: enable=3D1, enabling TIM
> May 16 12:51:18 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_node_powersave: c4:85:08:3f:9e:=
c2: enable=3D0
> May 16 12:51:18 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_node_set_tim: c4:85:08:3f:9e:c2=
: enable=3D0, an_pwrsave=3D0, disabling
> May 16 12:51:20 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_node_powersave: c4:85:08:3f:9e:=
c2: enable=3D1
> May 16 12:51:20 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_node_set_tim: c4:85:08:3f:9e:c2=
: enable=3D1, enabling TIM
> May 16 12:51:20 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_node_powersave: c4:85:08:3f:9e:=
c2: enable=3D0
> May 16 12:51:20 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_node_set_tim: c4:85:08:3f:9e:c2=
: enable=3D0, an_pwrsave=3D0, disabling
> May 16 12:51:21 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_node_powersave: c4:85:08:3f:9e:=
c2: enable=3D1
> May 16 12:51:21 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_node_set_tim: c4:85:08:3f:9e:c2=
: enable=3D1, enabling TIM
> May 16 12:51:21 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_node_powersave: c4:85:08:3f:9e:=
c2: enable=3D0
> May 16 12:51:21 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_node_set_tim: c4:85:08:3f:9e:c2=
: enable=3D0, an_pwrsave=3D0, disabling
> May 16 12:51:31 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_node_powersave: c4:85:08:3f:9e:=
c2: enable=3D1
> May 16 12:51:31 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_node_set_tim: c4:85:08:3f:9e:c2=
: enable=3D1, enabling TIM
> May 16 12:51:31 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_node_powersave: c4:85:08:3f:9e:=
c2: enable=3D0
> May 16 12:51:31 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_node_set_tim: c4:85:08:3f:9e:c2=
: enable=3D0, an_pwrsave=3D0, disabling
> May 16 12:51:32 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_node_powersave: c4:85:08:3f:9e:=
c2: enable=3D1
> May 16 12:51:32 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_node_set_tim: c4:85:08:3f:9e:c2=
: enable=3D1, enabling TIM
> May 16 12:51:32 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_node_powersave: c4:85:08:3f:9e:=
c2: enable=3D0
> May 16 12:51:32 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_node_set_tim: c4:85:08:3f:9e:c2=
: enable=3D0, an_pwrsave=3D0, disabling
> May 16 12:51:34 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_node_powersave: c4:85:08:3f:9e:=
c2: enable=3D1
>
> And sometimes it shows:
>
> May 16 13:05:52 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_node_set_tim: c4:85:08:3f:9e:c2=
: enable=3D1, enabling TIM
> May 16 13:05:52 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_node_recv_pspoll: c4:85:08:3f:9=
e:c2: leaking frame to TID 0
> May 16 13:05:52 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_tx_leak_count_update: c4:85:08:=
3f:9e:c2: leak count =3D 1, psq=3D1, swq=3D6, MORE=3D1
> May 16 13:05:52 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_node_recv_pspoll: c4:85:08:3f:9=
e:c2: leaking frame to TID 0
> May 16 13:05:52 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_tx_leak_count_update: c4:85:08:=
3f:9e:c2: leak count =3D 1, psq=3D1, swq=3D8, MORE=3D1
> May 16 13:05:52 gateway kernel: ath0: ath_node_powersave: c4:85:08:3f:9e:=
c2: enable=3D0
>
>   It is when traffic goes 100-150Mbit/s, with drops to 75-85 every
> ~10th second.
>
>   At second test, after ~300 seconds of test in battery mode it drops to =
non-N speeds
>  and never recovered.
>
> --
> // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>
>



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