[ath] AR9285/AR2427 users - please test -HEAD

[Adrian Chadd]

Cool, so you're also seeing the hilariously garbage results when
transmitting low-rate packets (11b rate.) Cool. I'll investigate that.


adrian

2011/3/15 Vinícius Zavam <egypcio at googlemail.com>:
> 2011/3/14 Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org>:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Thanks for the information.
>>
>> Please (re) include the chipset details, and what's in dmesg for ath0.
>> Please also re-run sysctl dev.ath.0.sample_stats=1 (and check dmesg)
>> after doing a few transfers; that'll give statistics on the TX side
>> after it's actually done some TX'ing.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Adrian
>
> i've rebooted since last reply. rebuilded full kernel.
> there's no "bb hang" warnings till now. everything works just fine and smooth...
>
> ath0 at pci0:2:0:0:        class=0x028000 card=0x10891a3b chip=0x002b168c
> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>    vendor     = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
>    device     = 'Atheros AR9285 Wireless LAN 802.11 a/b/g/n
> Controller (AR928x)'
>    class      = network
>
> minimoose# dmesg | tail -21
> [00:26:5a:b1:da:92] refcnt 4 static_rix -1 ratemask 0xfcf
> [ 250] cur rix 8 (24 Mb ) since switch: packets 9 ticks 88281
> [ 250] last sample 10 cur sample -1 packets sent 2821
> [ 250] packets since sample 6 sample tt 690
> [1600] cur rix 10 (48 Mb ) since switch: packets 1 ticks 86973
> [1600] last sample 11 cur sample -1 packets sent 445
> [1600] packets since sample 27 sample tt 3502
> [ 1 Mb : 250]        4:4        (100%) T        4 F    0 avg  3216 last 2246
> [ 5 Mb : 250]        1:0        (  0%) T       12 F    1 avg 100122 last 59031
> [ 5 Mb :1600]        1:0        (  0%) T       12 F    1 avg  3355 last 59031
> [12 Mb : 250]        2:2        (100%) T        2 F    0 avg   950 last 55036
> [18 Mb : 250]       58:57       ( 98%) T       64 F    0 avg  1184 last 2303
> [18 Mb :1600]        1:0        (  0%) T        5 F    1 avg  2038 last 7062
> [24 Mb : 250]      399:398      ( 99%) T      424 F    0 avg   807 last 0
> [24 Mb :1600]        1:0        (  0%) T        5 F    1 avg  1674 last 447
> [36 Mb : 250]     1503:1499     ( 99%) T     1568 F    0 avg   832 last 444
> [36 Mb :1600]       15:11       ( 73%) T       31 F    0 avg  1322 last 54852
> [48 Mb : 250]      254:249      ( 98%) T      280 F    0 avg   956 last 78
> [48 Mb :1600]      320:315      ( 98%) T      361 F    0 avg  1202 last 1386
> [54 Mb : 250]      604:603      ( 99%) T      639 F    0 avg   991 last 53723
> [54 Mb :1600]      120:119      ( 99%) T      148 F    0 avg  1514 last 53555
>
> minimoose# dmesg | egrep -i ath
> ath0: <Atheros 9285> mem 0xfbff0000-0xfbffffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci2
> ath0: AR9285 mac 192.2 RF5133 phy 14.0
> alc0: <Atheros AR8132 PCIe Fast Ethernet> port 0xec00-0xec7f mem
> 0xf7fc0000-0xf7ffffff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci1
> atphy0: <Atheros F1 10/100/1000 PHY> PHY 0 on miibus0
>
>
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