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Date:      Thu, 17 Jul 2014 21:24:33 +0200
From:      John Hay <jhay@meraka.org.za>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org" <freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org>, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: CAMBRIA and more than one atheros card
Message-ID:  <20140717192433.GA35445@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmompU4RFqpU==DqzxsW%2BggfHKFqEVLL7FUVa_%2BmTUur64w@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 12:17:19PM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> I've seen some weird cases in the past where there's just no
> interrupts making out after boot. I don't know why.
> 
> Chances are that's what you're seeing - the frame is going out but
> there's no interrupts.
> 
> Check vmstat -ia ; see if ath0 is generating interrupts.

I don't think vmstat -ia work properly. On a boot where ath works, this
is what I see:

tst-11-arm:~ # vmstat -ia
interrupt                          total       rate
irq0: npe1                             0          0
irq2: npe0                             0          0
irq3: ixpqmgr0                         0          0
irq4: ixpqmgr0                         0          0
irq5: ixpclk0                          0          0
Total                            3520443        172

Ath0-2 do not pitch up and npe0 stays 0 even though packets have been
sent and received on it.

John

> 
> 
> 
> -a
> 
> 
> On 17 July 2014 03:34, John Hay <jhay@meraka.org.za> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 10:37:07PM +0200, John Hay wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 01:02:03PM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Ah, you're not even using it in 11n mode. Ok.
> >> >
> >> > Well, that's 72 mbufs allocated, and up to 200 more being allocated
> >> > during transmit. Then there's the handful of pages being used for DMA
> >> > descriptors. So yeah, over time that may become a problem.
> >> >
> >> > Try doubling the number of bounce buffers available and see what happens.
> >>
> >> The first boot looks good, all 3 aths came up. Bounce buffers just
> >> after login:
> >>
> >> tst-11-arm:~ # sysctl hw.busdma
> >> hw.busdma.total_bpages: 128
> >> hw.busdma.zone0.total_bpages: 128
> >> hw.busdma.zone0.free_bpages: 128
> >> hw.busdma.zone0.reserved_bpages: 0
> >> hw.busdma.zone0.active_bpages: 0
> >> hw.busdma.zone0.total_bounced: 0
> >> hw.busdma.zone0.total_deferred: 0
> >> hw.busdma.zone0.lowaddr: 0x4000fff
> >> hw.busdma.zone0.alignment: 4096
> > ...
> >> Great! At last it seems like we are making progress. I'll leave it
> >> till the morning and then do a few reboots and then some traffic.
> >>
> >> One question, should the active bounce pages keep growing or stabilize
> >> somewhere? How do I know if I have to few or if there is a leak?
> >>
> >> Thanks Adrian for your help.
> >
> > I still ran out sometimes during a reboot, so I upped it to 512 and added
> > a sysctl to show the max that active_bpages has been. Sometimes just
> > after a reboot active_bpages is low and other times higher, I have seen
> > 140. A few times during a reboot I see timeouts, which only a reboot
> > seem to recover from. Can it be a left over config from the previous boot
> > that does not get cleaned out? Or maybe traffic being received while the
> > config is happening?
> >
> > Here is an example during the boot:
> >
> > ####################
> > ...
> > ath0: <Atheros 9220> irq 28 at device 1.0 on pci0
> > alloc_bounce_pages: numpages 63
> > [ath] enabling AN_TOP2_FIXUP
> > alloc_bounce_pages: numpages 63
> > alloc_bounce_pages: numpages 63
> > alloc_bounce_pages: numpages 63
> > alloc_bounce_pages: numpages 63
> > alloc_bounce_pages: numpages 63
> > alloc_bounce_pages: numpages 63
> > alloc_bounce_pages: numpages 63
> > alloc_bounce_pages: numpages 8
> > ath0: AR9220 mac 128.2 RF5133 phy 13.0
> > ath0: 2GHz radio: 0x0000; 5GHz radio: 0x00c0
> > ath1: <Atheros 9220> irq 27 at device 2.0 on pci0
> > [ath] enabling AN_TOP2_FIXUP
> > ath1: AR9220 mac 128.2 RF5133 phy 13.0
> > ath1: 2GHz radio: 0x0000; 5GHz radio: 0x00c0
> > ath2: <Atheros 5413> irq 26 at device 3.0 on pci0
> > ath2: AR5413 mac 10.5 RF5413 phy 6.1
> > ath2: 2GHz radio: 0x0000; 5GHz radio: 0x0063
> > ixpclk0: <IXP4XX Timer> on ixp0
> > ixpiic0: <IXP4XX GPIO-Based I2C Interface> on ixp0
> > ...
> > /sbin/ifconfig.bin wlan0 create wlandev ath0 wlanmode adhoc country ZA
> > wlan0: Ethernet address: 00:21:a4:35:70:42
> > /sbin/ifconfig.bin wlan0 inet6 ifdisabled
> > /sbin/ifconfig.bin wlan0 -bgscan channel 140 ssid mesh bssid 02:8c:ca:fe:ca:00
> > /sbin/ifconfig.bin wlan0 inet6 -ifdisabled
> > /sbin/ifconfig.bin wlan0 inet6 auto_linklocal
> > /sbin/ifconfig.bin wlan0 inet6 -ifdisabled
> > dev.ath.0.debug: 0 -> 8
> > /sbin/ifconfig.bin wlan0 up
> > ath0: ath_init: if_flags 0x8803
> > ath0: ath_stop_locked: invalid 0 if_flags 0x8803
> > dev.ath.0.debug: 8 -> 0
> > ath0: hardware error; resetting
> > ath0: 0x00000000 0x00000020 0x00000000, 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
> > ar5416StopDmaReceive: dma failed to stop in 10ms
> > AR_CR=0x00000024
> > AR_DIAG_SW=0x42000020
> > /sbin/ifconfig.bin wlan0 inet6 fd35:ac5b:b116:10:: prefixlen 64 eui64 alias
> > /sbin/ifconfig.bin wlan0 inet6 fd35:ac5b:b116:10:: prefixlen 64 alias anycast
> > /sbin/ifconfig.bin wlan1 create wlandev ath1 wlanmode adhoc country ZA
> > wlan1: Ethernet address: 00:21:a4:35:6c:96
> > /sbin/ifconfig.bin wlan1 inet6 ifdisabled
> > /sbin/ifconfig.bin wlan1 -bgscan channel 136 ssid mesh bssid 02:88:ca:fe:ca:00
> > /sbin/ifconfig.bin wlan1 inet6 -ifdisabled
> > /sbin/ifconfig.bin wlan1 inet6 auto_linklocal
> > /sbin/ifconfig.bin wlan1 inet6 -ifdisabled
> > dev.ath.1.debug: 0 -> 8
> > /sbin/ifconfig.bin wlan1 up
> > ath1: ath_init: if_flags 0x8803
> > ath1: ath_stop_locked: invalid 0 if_flags 0x8803
> > R[ 0] (DS.V:0xcd027000 DS.P:0x1227000) L:01227060 D:00089000 *
> >       00000000 00000800 0b802c2c 000000b2
> >         0000175f 00000100 2f808080 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000003
> > R[ 0] (DS.V:0xcd027060 DS.P:0x1227060) L:012270c0 D:0008a000
> >       00000000 00000800 00000000 00000000
> >         00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> > dev.ath.1.debug: 8 -> 0
> > /sbin/ifconfig.bin wlan1 inet6 fd35:ac5b:b116:10:: prefixlen 64 eui64 alias
> > /sbin/ifconfig.bin wlan1 inet6 fd35:ac5b:b116:10:: prefixlen 64 alias anycast
> > ifa_add_loopback_route: insertion failed: 17
> > ifconfig.bin: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists
> > /sbin/ifconfig.bin wlan2 create wlandev ath2 wlanmode adhoc country ZA
> > wlan2: Ethernet address: 00:21:a4:32:38:c2
> > /sbin/ifconfig.bin wlan2 inet6 ifdisabled
> > ath0: device timeout
> > ar5416StopDmaReceive: dma failed to stop in 10ms
> > AR_CR=0x00000024
> > AR_DIAG_SW=0x42000020
> > /sbin/ifconfig.bin wlan2 -bgscan channel 13 ssid hotspot bssid 02:0d:ca:fe:ca:00
> > /sbin/ifconfig.bin wlan2 inet6 -ifdisabled
> > /sbin/ifconfig.bin wlan2 inet6 auto_linklocal
> > /sbin/ifconfig.bin wlan2 inet6 -ifdisabled
> > dev.ath.2.debug: 0 -> 8
> > /sbin/ifconfig.bin wlan2 up
> > ath2: ath_init: if_flags 0x8803
> > ath2: ath_stop_locked: invalid 0 if_flags 0x8803
> > dev.ath.2.debug: 8 -> 0
> > /sbin/ifconfig.bin wlan2 inet 10.56.244.1/24 alias
> > /sbin/ifconfig.bin wlan2 inet6 fd35:ac5b:b116:38f4:: prefixlen 64 eui64 alias
> > /sbin/ifconfig.bin wlan2 inet6 fd35:ac5b:b116:38f4:: prefixlen 64 alias anycast
> > ...
> > ath0: device timeout
> > ar5416StopDmaReceive: dma failed to stop in 10ms
> > AR_CR=0x00000024
> > AR_DIAG_SW=0x42000020
> > ...
> > tst-11-arm:~ # uptime
> >  9:18AM  up 2 mins, 1 user, load averages: 1.63, 0.70, 0.28
> > tst-11-arm:~ # sysctl hw.busdma
> > hw.busdma.total_bpages: 512
> > hw.busdma.zone0.total_bpages: 512
> > hw.busdma.zone0.free_bpages: 375
> > hw.busdma.zone0.reserved_bpages: 0
> > hw.busdma.zone0.active_bpages: 137
> > hw.busdma.zone0.max_active_bpages: 137
> > hw.busdma.zone0.total_bounced: 1739
> > hw.busdma.zone0.total_deferred: 0
> > hw.busdma.zone0.lowaddr: 0x4000fff
> > hw.busdma.zone0.alignment: 4096
> > tst-11-arm:~ # ath0: device timeout
> > ar5416StopDmaReceive: dma failed to stop in 10ms
> > AR_CR=0x00000024
> > AR_DIAG_SW=0x42000020
> >
> > tst-11-arm:~ # uptime
> >  9:20AM  up 4 mins, 1 user, load averages: 0.68, 0.68, 0.34
> > tst-11-arm:~ # sysctl hw.busdma
> > hw.busdma.total_bpages: 512
> > hw.busdma.zone0.total_bpages: 512
> > hw.busdma.zone0.free_bpages: 326
> > hw.busdma.zone0.reserved_bpages: 0
> > hw.busdma.zone0.active_bpages: 186
> > hw.busdma.zone0.max_active_bpages: 190
> > hw.busdma.zone0.total_bounced: 6592
> > hw.busdma.zone0.total_deferred: 0
> > hw.busdma.zone0.lowaddr: 0x4000fff
> > hw.busdma.zone0.alignment: 4096
> > tst-11-arm:~ # ath0: device timeout
> > ar5416StopDmaReceive: dma failed to stop in 10ms
> > AR_CR=0x00000024
> > AR_DIAG_SW=0x42000020
> > ath0: device timeout
> > ar5416StopDmaReceive: dma failed to stop in 10ms
> > AR_CR=0x00000024
> > AR_DIAG_SW=0x42000020
> > ####################
> >
> > The 2 other interfaces did not seem to have a problem and after a reboot
> > ath0/wlan0 was working fine again.
> >
> > John
> > --
> > John Hay -- jhay@meraka.csir.co.za / jhay@meraka.org.za



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