Felix Fietkau <n...@nbd.name> schreef op 7 februari 2019 14:30:51 CET: >On 2019-02-04 22:57, Stijn Segers wrote: >> >> >> Op zondag 3 februari 2019 om 14:54 schreef Felix Fietkau ><n...@nbd.name>: >>> On 2019-02-02 19:08, Stijn Segers wrote: >>>> Hi Felix, >>>> >>>> I built 18.06 HEAD with your 2019-01-30 bump, and with the >>>> mt76-disable-edcca.patch applied. That seemed very stable (up >since >>>> 30/01 evening, very high throughput - never seen anything close to > >>>> 50 >>>> MBps on my 2x2 client before; I barely got close to 25 MBps >>>> before). No >>>> laggy feeling, so didn't check ping. Wireless wasn't used in the >>>> morning or the day, but I have tried to stress it in the evening >>>> (31/01) -transferred about 65 GiB of data over the WLAN (scp). No >>>> hiccups whatsoever. >>>> >>>> I then reverted to vanilla 18.06 HEAD 31/01, so none of the >patches >>>> applied, and the connection kept working but page loading in the >>>> browser e.g. would occasionally be slow (nothing else chewing on >my >>>> network connection). I checked ping, and it was all over the place >>>> again (from sub-milliseconds to 10 ms, occasionally 100ms to other >>>> devices on the LAN). I suppose there's no real value in those >>>> numbers, >>>> but it does quantify the feeling of the wireless 'choking' >>>> momentarily, >>>> then picking up again. After like half an hour, wireless would >hang >>>> on >>>> my laptop: I was unable to ping anything, web pages stopped >loading >>>> altogether. Same thing on my smartphone. However, when I disabled >>>> wireless on both clients, then turned it on again, the connection >>>> started working once more; that didn't happen on the previous mt76 >>>> bumps. There the radio would just seem to die like explained in >the >>>> bug >>>> report. >>> Thanks, that information was very helpful. Did you run those tests >on >>> 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz? >> >> Hi Felix, >> >> 5 GHz only (I don't use the 2,4 GHz radio). >> >> >>> >>>> Since that hang already happened within the hour, I ran a new >build >>>> with the most recent mt76 bump (2019-01-31) together with the >>>> 'disable >>>> edcca' patch. That has been working fine so far (although I'm not >>>> hitting 50 MBps anymore :-P ). It's been up since Friday >afternoon, >>>> so >>>> almost 30 hours now. The radio gets shut down at night, but I've >>>> been >>>> using it for hours and no issues as far as I can tell. >>>> >>>> Do you want me to try the second patch, or is this OK >>> No need. I've pushed a whole bunch of ED/CCA related patches to >>> mt76.git >>> (haven't bumped OpenWrt git yet). >>> Could you please test that latest version (commit >>> e301f2349a191c845b6bd2d487e64591ac2ed64d)? >> >> I just rebuilt your 2019-02-03 bump (copied the Makefile from master >to >> the 18.06 package feed), installed the kmods on top of my existing >> 18.06 build and rebooted. >> Initially it seemed fine, although the connection seemed a bit laggy >at >> first but that stabilised. My smartphone then just disconnected after > >> an hour (router uptime 1:15' +-) and the AP was not visible anymore >> despite 'wifi status radio0' saying it was still up. Dmesg was >> completely silent (nothing related to mt76 or the AP dying). >> >> 'Wifi reload' brought it back temporarily - it then only took a few >> minutes to go down again though, for the AP to disappear again and >this >> second time the MCU timeout messages reappeared like in the bug >report >> on Flyspray. >> >> I didn't have either of your previous patches applied (so 'vanilla' >> mt76 2019-02-03). I'm rolling back to vanilla 18.06 + your ED/CCA >patch >> for now. If you need any other info/need me to test/check other >things, >> let me know. (I hope this is software and not dying hardware, I >> wouldn't be able to tell the difference.) >> >> Thanks for your help already so far. >Thanks for testing! >Does this issue happen for you only on 2.4 GHz, or also on 5 GHz? >My patches seem to have resolved the hang for at least one other user. >I suspect that this is way more likely to happen on 2.4 GHz because of >all the extra noise, so I'm considering disabling ED/CCA for 2.4 GHz. > >- Felix
Hi Felix, I don't know I'd my reply got caught in the chain or if you read it the other way around - but I'm only using 5 GHz. Cheers Stijn _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
