haukepetersen opened a new issue #1105: URL: https://github.com/apache/mynewt-nimble/issues/1105
We are debugging a strange behavior we encountered when doing some experiments with extended advertisements: we have 14 nodes periodically transmitting data to a central sink node via extended advertisements. The way we transmit the data is to write the data into an unused advertising instance (configured to use a total of 10), and then advertise the data exactly 3 times. Now we wanted to run a 24h experiment, and everything went fine for the first ~18,1 hours. But after ~65500 seconds, all of our 14 nodes stop sending out data at the same time. What we can observe, is that NimBLE stops to trigger `BLE_GAP_EVENT_ADV_COMPLETE` events and the counters we put into the PHY code show that the node is not transmitting any packets anymore. So far I don't have a lead on what could cause this behavior, but here are some thoughts we have collected so far: - as 14 nodes show exactly the same behavior at the same time (in the order of the same second), my guess is that this is a systematic software bug somewhere in NimBLE - the time between reboot (all nodes are rebooted at beginning of each experiment) and the faulty behavior is awfully close to `UINT16_MAX` -> does intuitively point to some kind of (timer?) overflow issue - as the node stop to send out any packets on the radio, could this be related to the controller's scheduler? Does anyone have experience running extended advertisements for longer periods of time? Or is there any idea what could be causing this? Due to a paper deadline approaching it would be great to have our setup stable ASAP :-) Build/configuration context: - NimBLE @ RIOT - NimBLE version b9c20addd87f1692ea27600ede82f641c77315be - Using the following configuration for extended advertisements: ``` MYNEWT_VAL_MSYS_1_BLOCK_SIZE=294 MYNEWT_VAL_MSYS_1_BLOCK_COUNT=32 MYNEWT_VAL_BLE_MULTI_ADV_INSTANCES=9 MYNEWT_VAL_BLE_EXT_ADV=1 MYNEWT_VAL_BLE_EXT_ADV_MAX_SIZE=1650 MYNEWT_VAL_BLE_HCI_EVT_HI_BUF_COUNT=12 MYNEWT_VAL_BLE_HCI_EVT_BUF_SIZE=257 MYNEWT_VAL_BLE_LL_EXT_ADV_AUX_PTR_CNT=10 MYNEWT_VAL_BLE_LL_CFG_FEAT_LL_EXT_ADV=1 ``` -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
