Hi
I was just wondering is some patches for this performance fixes were made
available.
Any inputs would help
regards
Ajay


On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:43 AM, Thomas Pedersen <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Chaoxing Lin
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > TP>
> > TP>Are you talking about a different bug?
> >
> > GY> Hm, may bee, but according to Chaoxing Lin emails there is several
> bugs which cause performance degradation in 802.11s mode, and symptoms in
> my case indentical, i get same results as Chaoxing Lin, and seems same
> throbles, i will make tests what you want anyway and report results.
> >
> > For easy reference, I summarize the 4 problems I uncovered so far that
> contribute to in-stability of 7-node 802.11s network.
> >
> > 1. ath9k "Tx DMA error". Ping packet loss is seen each time "Fail to
> stop Tx DMA" log is seen.  It's NOT the main cause.
> >
> > 2. authsae or 802.11s kernel problem: The two ends of a peer link get
> out of sync for whatever reason. One end says, the peer link is "ESTAB" and
> all 3 keys are in place. While the other end says this peer link is not
> "ESTAB", no keys installed for the peer.
>
> We recently applied
>
> https://github.com/cozybit/authsae/commit/0e5c65c3f773db820d6cee7b365cd4a70181c72d
> which may fix your issue.
>
> > 3. AES-CCM pairwise key sometimes complains packet replay so ping
> packets are dropped. A kernel key dump in this error case is below. (I
> overwrote key_key_read() function in debugfs_key.c to dump all info)
> >
> >         Key 362:
> >         0xcf393800 AES-CCM Key: 49305a736a8b6d5fcb34057ee6983d44
> Pairwise
> >         Peer MAC: 00:0e:8e:38:36:03
> >         tx_pn: 000000000000009f
> >
> >
> >         rx_pn[ 0]: 0000000d788b  rx_pn[ 1]: 000000000000  rx_pn[ 2]:
> 000000000000
> >         rx_pn[ 3]: 000000000000
> >         rx_pn[ 4]: 000000000000  rx_pn[ 5]: 000000000000  rx_pn[ 6]:
> 000000000000
> >         rx_pn[ 7]: 000000000000
> >         rx_pn[ 8]: 000000000000  rx_pn[ 9]: 000000000000  rx_pn[10]:
> 000000000000
> >         rx_pn[11]: 000000000000
> >         rx_pn[12]: 000000000000  rx_pn[13]: 000000000000  rx_pn[14]:
> 000000000000
> >         rx_pn[15]: 000000000000
> >         rx_pn[16]: 000000003580
> >
> >         replays: 11970 icverror:  <=======================problem
> here===========
> >
> > The worse thing for problem 2 and 3 above is, when it gets into this
> state, the mpath still stays active. So all packets are still routed to the
> bad peer link/mpath and will be dropped by peer.
>
> ok. Patches are welcome.
>
> > 4. 802.11n packet aggregation. I believe this is the main problem by the
> fact that, disabling 802.11n packet aggregation in ath9k driver will make
> the network stable and problem 2 and 3 are not seen. In other words,
> problem 2 and 3 may be caused by aggregation (my imagination, aggregation
> caused certain error condition that is not handled properly, which triggers
> problem 2 and 3)
>
> And to reproduce you run a simultaneous ping from one node to ~6
> others? It will take me a few days to find time to reproduce this, so
> any interesting observations you can offer in the mean time would be
> helpful.
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas
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