Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 20:34:21 +0100 From: Stefan Farfeleder <stefanf@FreeBSD.org> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: iwn(4) hangs after r257133 Message-ID: <20131110193421.GB1778@mole.fafoe.narf.at> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmonxB-to30Tkq9ad830FTRpbW2=cn9nuNzXHMK67jCuNgQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CALBk6yJf%2BZ_%2BF8kVPFOdQ%2B8UC3vBU3MZJGjkPfxeSkjSZ6FPbA@mail.gmail.com> <20131110121737.GA1834@mole.fafoe.narf.at> <CAJ-Vmom-57ZM0xsxLpL=prENzZ0j27jYNnMLk-_=HHONr3L8zA@mail.gmail.com> <20131110163340.GA1778@mole.fafoe.narf.at> <CAJ-VmonxB-to30Tkq9ad830FTRpbW2=cn9nuNzXHMK67jCuNgQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:48:48AM -0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Right near the end there you have 'status 83' which means 'transmit > failed, long retry hit' (the status codes are in if_iwnreg.h > somewhere.) The retry count hit 16, which is the max set for the > frame. > > rate=80 (hex) is MCS0. So, you're seeing retransmits and failures at > MCS0, which is a bad sign. > > But, notice how AMRR increased it to MCS2 at a couple stages, and that > _always_ fails. But AMRR waits for 10 frame transmits before it > adjusts the rate up or down. > > So yes, we do need to enable MRR again on iwn for things to behave > better. There are other issues when you start doing larger amounts of > traffic but I'll cover those later.what? > > If someone wants to take a crack at correctly implementing the link > quality table stuff again then please let me know. As I said before, > the link quality table setup code is mostly sane. The problem is > actually correctly setting 'linkq' to start at the selected rate, as > linkq is an index into that table, not the initial rate. Hi, after some trial and error I found out that disabling AMPDU makes my iwn0 usable again. Now I actually see the rate as reported by `list sta' going up and down (mostly between 54M and 121M). Before it was always fixed at 135M. Could this be related? Stefanhome | help
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