Bengt Ahlgren wrote:
Weongyo Jeong <weongyo.je...@gmail.com> writes:
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 06:04:17PM -0800, Sam Leffler wrote:
Bengt Ahlgren wrote:
Weongyo Jeong <weongyo.je...@gmail.com> writes:
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 01:20:36PM +0900, Nathan Butcher wrote:
I have a Buffalo WLI-U2-KG54-AI wireless USB adaptor.
It has been malfunctioning for quite a while under FreeBSD7.0 and 7.1
Typically, It works for a while until eventually it stalls data
transfers completely. It always seems to do this after an unspecified
amount of time.
I know the hardware isn't at fault because the device works fine under
Linux.
Could you please check that `ifconfig <ifname> -bgscan' disabling the
background scan helps your symptom?
The above sounds like the same problem as this:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2009-February/011376.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2009-February/011343.html
The problem is in the background scanning logic in sys/net80211.
I don't see how you come to this conclusion. ural is a totally
different driver than ath and so far as I can recall you never found the
cause for your problem w/ ath. Most of the usb wireless drivers do a
haphazard job of synchronizing async tasks like bg scan with the
foreground tx/rx processing. This can lead to firmware and/or usb
issues. ath does not have these issues but I am aware of at least one
problem w/ bg scanning in ath under RELENG_7 (that is not present in HEAD).
I agree with sam because I saw some cases like stalls during background
scanning that most of them I think it's caused by H/W miss-operation or
miss-configuration by mistakes of driver.
Looking into if_ural (1.69.6.1 - 7.1R version), it partly has the same
calls to net80211 which causes problems for ath.
At line 1477, it has the same test as ath has to check for bg
scanning:
if (ic->ic_flags & IEEE80211_F_SCAN)
ieee80211_cancel_scan(ic);
That means that ieee80211_cancel_scan won't be called in the window
between when scan_next is run (which resets IEEE80211_F_SCAN), and
ieee80211_bg_scan is called the next time (setting IEEE80211_F_SCAN
again). This is the same problem as ath has.
But I can't find that ural calls ieee80211_pwrsave to queue packets if
a bgscan was running. It seems that it just merrily tries to send
packets despite scanning is going on.
Please note that even though ieee80211_cancel_scan IS called, that
won't take effect until the next clock tick. So if the output routine
just carries on with sending a packet, it will do so in the middle of
the scan. This is something that should be fixed in net80211.
So, I find that ural also suffers from the problem with the scanning
logic in net80211.
It appears RELENG_7's scanning code lacks the locking that's in HEAD to
guard against the race you describe.
Sam
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