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Date:      Mon, 3 Oct 2011 09:01:35 -0700
From:      Roman Bogorodskiy <novel@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bwn + BETA3/ppc = very unstable
Message-ID:  <20111003160133.GE1943@reemsky>
In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmonYRHHbU-z219TjqnOxLppWhyjpTNw09Z_qzbuPCGmzCA@mail.gmail.com>
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  Adrian Chadd wrote:

> On 3 October 2011 12:43, Roman Bogorodskiy <novel@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > =A0Roman Bogorodskiy wrote:
>=20
> > Hm, I have applied a fix similar to this one:
> >
> > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/ic/bwi.c.diff?r1=3D1.=
88;r2=3D1.89
> >
> > I'm not sure if it's a coincidence or not, but I had no panics since
> > then. Packet loss rate are still very high - first packets go through
> > without losses, but eventually loss rate goes up.
>=20
> It sounds like a calibration issue.
>=20
> > Now uptime is 1 hour and loss rate is about 80-85%.
> >
> > Any directions how can I debug this?
>=20
> Well, firstly, can you please do up a patch against -HEAD? I'll commit
> it to FreeBSD-HEAD ASAP and then include it in the list of things I
> want to backmerge into -9.

Here's the  diff: http://people.freebsd.org/~novel/misc/bwi.diff

Uptime is 12 hours now and no panics so far with it.

> Debugging this - I'd first isolate it to whether it is:
>=20
> * TX issues;
> * RX issues;
> * or both TX and RX issues.
>=20
> I suggest liberal use of iperf in UDP mode to TX things. It's a bit
> difficult as TX'ing a one way UDP stream also involves RX'ing an ACK
> from the remote end, so it isn't a 100% guaranteed way of debugging
> it. But it hopefully will show it's either TX or RX related.
>=20
> I'd also enable BWI_DEBUG and then flip on the relevant bits that let
> you debug the attach and configuration bits (BWI_DBG_RF,
> BWI_DBG_TXPOWER, BWI_DBG_ATTACH).
> In fact, enable both BWI_DEBUG and BWI_DEBUG_VERBOSE in your kernel
> config and rebuild.
>=20
> The BWI_DBG bits are defined in if_bwivar.h.

Thanks for the info, will trying doing that!

Roman Bogorodskiy

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