Hi Stanis,
Our environment has the following wireless config (MT7620A):
config wifi-device 'radio0'
option type 'mac80211'
option channel 'auto'
option hwmode '11g'
option path 'platform/10180000.wmac'
option txpower '20'
option country 'GB'
option htmode 'HT40'
option noscan '1'
config wifi-iface 'default_radio0'
option device 'radio0'
option network 'lan'
option mode 'ap'
option encryption 'psk2+aes'
option key ‘KEY'
option maxassoc '96'
option ssid ’SSID'
option disassoc_low_ack ‘0'
The 30 clients are all Apple iPads (a mixture of iPad mini and mini 2, running
iOS 9-11). During this testing period, all clients were simultaneously
downloading files from the devices’ sdcard (served via nginx running on the
device). Although this is not a typical use-case, it was useful in
stress-testing the wireless setup.
We’ll try your patches Stanis.
Daniel - forgive the stupid question, but how do we apply Stanis’ patches atop
your staging tree (or both yours and Stanis’ atop trunk?)
> On 7 Mar 2018, at 14:27, Stanislaw Gruszka <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 04:30:10PM +0100, Daniel Golle wrote:
>> [forwarding to all other involved players]
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 05:50:51PM +0300, Jamie Stuart wrote:
>>> Hi Daniel,
>>> The driver seems much improved after this fix.
>>
>> it's about those two
>> [PATCH 1/2] rt2x00: pause almost full queue early
>> [PATCH 2/2] rt2x00: do not pause queue unconditionally on error path
>>
>>> Under very heavy load (30 clients downloading multi-GB files from SD card
>>> on the server concurrently), wifi dies with errors:
>
> This is some testbed? Could you share how did you setup such
> environment and what are client devices ?
>
>>> [ 7794.230376] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_rxdone_read_signal: Warning -
>>> Frame received with unrecognized signal, mode=0x0001, signal=0x010c, type=4
>
> This is indicator that HW/FW has a problem. There could be various
> reasons for that. One possible I can also observe in my setup,is strange
> mishmash of seq on frames which were not acked in BlockACK and
> had to be resent. This can happen when many frames are wrongly decoded
> (i.e. when there is bad radio condition or we have not correct low level
> RF/BBP setup for a Ralink device). To mitigate that problem we can
> limit length of agreggeted AMPDU frame.
>
> I attached two patches which do that. One for RX side second for TX side.
> Please check if they make a diffrent. You can also hardcode ba_size = 0
> for those 30 clients setup.
>
> Note the patches can cause (possibly small) perfromance degradation on
> good setups.
>
> Mathias, could you check them as well and see if they do not cause
> performance regression on your device ? Lastly when I changed ba_size
> setting, it was a problem on your setup.
>
>>> Thu Mar 1 16:36:47 2018 kern.err kernel: [ 8702.146403] ieee80211 phy0:
>>> rt2x00queue_write_tx_frame: Error - Arrived at non-free entry in the
>>> non-full queue 2
>>> Thu Mar 1 16:36:47 2018 kern.err kernel: [ 8702.146403] Please file bug
>>> report to http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
>>> Thu Mar 1 16:36:48 2018 kern.err kernel: [ 8702.288149] ieee80211 phy0:
>>> rt2x00queue_write_tx_frame: Error - Arrived at non-free entry in the
>>> non-full queue 2
>>> Thu Mar 1 16:36:48 2018 kern.err kernel: [ 8702.288149] Please file bug
>>> report to http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
>>> Thu Mar 1 16:36:48 2018 kern.err kernel: [ 8702.380761] ieee80211 phy0:
>>> rt2x00queue_write_tx_frame: Error - Arrived at non-free entry in the
>>> non-full queue 2
>>> Thu Mar 1 16:36:48 2018 kern.err kernel: [ 8702.380761] Please file bug
>>> report to http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
>
> For those errors I recommend to remove
>
> 600-23-rt2x00-rt2800mmio-add-a-workaround-for-spurious-TX_F.patch
>
> patch. Whould be good if OpenWRT developers could apply this patch only
> on target where it is really needed, not for all rt2800 devices.
>
> Thanks
> Stanislaw
