Re: Watch out for 850Mbit/s WiFi

From: Adrian Chadd <adrian_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 01:44:28 UTC
NIIIIIIIICEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

:-)


-adrian


On Thu, 10 Apr 2025 at 18:43, Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I had a bit of fun tonight after all and figured out what prevented me
> from enabling VHT80P80 and VHT160 since January for testing.  Patches
> to come to review tomorrow (well that is today here).  Turns out I cannot
> test VHT80P80 currently.
>
> This is likely the first VHT/160 assoc on FreeBSD so I thought I'd send
> the email.
>
> And I ran the simple silly iperf3 test.
> Not much more than VHT80 but I am also sure I am starting to hit other
> limits in this test setup.  It goes from the AX210 in a bhyve instance
> to AP to a small 4 port switch and back into em0 on the same laptop
> just the base system running the iperf3 server.
>
> Down there is UDP TX from the wifi set to 960Mbit/s target rate.
> Don't expect that with single stream TCP.  Yet another thing to debug ;)
>
> Keep in mind we are still copying the full frame incl. data from
> skb to mbuf or vice versa depending on direction and other fun bits
> to optimize one day.  I guess I'll try to find an AP supporting 11BE
> and SFP+ for 10G DAC or fiber for christmas this year... until then it'll
> be other things to get us stable first.
>
> Try it our yourself please -- even with VHT80!
>
> Lots of joy
> Bjoern
>
>
> # ifconfig -v wlan0
> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>          options=0
>          ether 74:13:ea:6e:de:c1
>          inet6 fe80::7613:eaff:fe6e:dec1%wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
>          inet6 ....
>          groups: wlan
>          ssid abc123 channel 40 (5200 MHz 11a vht/160) bssid
> 9a:9d:7e:76:6f:fa
>          regdomain ETSI country DE anywhere -ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i -wps
>          -tsn privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF
>          AES-CCM 2:128-bit
>          powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 txpower 22 txpowmax 50.0
> -dotd
>          rtsthreshold 2346 fragthreshold 2346 bmiss 7
>          11a     ucast NONE    mgmt  6 Mb/s mcast  6 Mb/s maxretry 6
>          11b     ucast NONE    mgmt  1 Mb/s mcast  1 Mb/s maxretry 6
>          11g     ucast NONE    mgmt  1 Mb/s mcast  1 Mb/s maxretry 6
>          11na    ucast NONE    mgmt  6 Mb/s mcast  6 Mb/s maxretry 6
>          11ng    ucast NONE    mgmt  1 Mb/s mcast  1 Mb/s maxretry 6
>          11ac    ucast NONE    mgmt  6 Mb/s mcast  6 Mb/s maxretry 6
>          scanvalid 60 -bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250
>          roam:11a     rssi    7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
>          roam:11b     rssi    7dBm rate  1 Mb/s
>          roam:11g     rssi    7dBm rate  5 Mb/s
>          roam:11na    rssi    7dBm  MCS  1
>          roam:11ng    rssi    7dBm  MCS  1
>          roam:11ac    rssi    7dBm  MCS  1
>          -pureg protmode CTS ht htcompat -ampdutx ampdurx ampdulimit 64k
>          ampdudensity NA -amsdutx amsdurx shortgi htprotmode RTSCTS -puren
>          -smps -rifs stbc -ldpctx ldpcrx -uapsd vht vht40 vht80 vht160
>          -vht80p80 wme -burst -dwds roaming MANUAL bintval 100
>          AC_BE cwmin  4 cwmax 10 aifs  3 txopLimit   0 -acm ack
>                cwmin  0 cwmax  0 aifs  0 txopLimit   0 -acm
>          AC_BK cwmin  4 cwmax 10 aifs  7 txopLimit   0 -acm ack
>                cwmin  4 cwmax 10 aifs  7 txopLimit   0 -acm
>          AC_VI cwmin  3 cwmax  4 aifs  2 txopLimit  94 -acm ack
>                cwmin  0 cwmax  0 aifs  0 txopLimit   0 -acm
>          AC_VO cwmin  2 cwmax  3 aifs  2 txopLimit  47 -acm ack
>                cwmin  0 cwmax  0 aifs  0 txopLimit   0 -acm
>          parent interface: iwlwifi0
>          media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet VHT mode 11ac
>          status: associated
>          nd6 options=23<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>          drivername: wlan0
>
> # sysctl compat.linuxkpi.80211.wlan0
> compat.linuxkpi.80211.wlan0.dump_stas:
> lsta 0xfffff800019b6800 sta 0xfffff800019b68c0 added_to_drv 1
>   nl80211_sta_info (valid fields) 0x00004001<BEACON_RX,TX_BITRATE>
>   connected_time 0 inactive_time 0
>   rx_bytes 0 rx_packets 0 rx_dropped_misc 0
>   rx_duration 0 rx_beacon 0 rx_beacon_signal_avg 0
>   tx_bytes 0 tx_packets 0 tx_failed 0
>   tx_duration 0 tx_retries 0
>   signal 0 signal_avg 0 ack_signal 0 avg_ack_signal 0
>   generation 0 assoc_req_ies_len 0 chains 0
>   rxrate: flags 0 bw 0(20) legacy 0 kbit/s mcs 0 nss 0
>           he_dcm 0 he_gi 0 he_ru_alloc 0 eht_gi 0
>   txrate: flags 6<VHT_MCS,SGI> bw 5(160) legacy 0 kbit/s mcs 9 nss 2
>           he_dcm 0 he_gi 0 he_ru_alloc 0 eht_gi 0
>
> Server output:
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Server listening on 5201 (test #18)
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Accepted connection from fe80::7613:eaff:fe6e:dec1, port 59751
> [  5] local fe80::c665:16ff:fef0:5da port 5201 connected to
> fe80::7613:eaff:fe6e:dec1 port 43081
> [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Jitter    Lost/Total
> Datagrams
> [  5]   0.00-1.00   sec   101 MBytes   844 Mbits/sec  0.018 ms  0/73529
> (0%)
> [  5]   1.00-2.00   sec   103 MBytes   866 Mbits/sec  0.017 ms  223/75199
> (0.3%)
> [  5]   2.00-3.00   sec   104 MBytes   870 Mbits/sec  0.023 ms  0/75572
> (0%)
> [  5]   3.00-4.00   sec   104 MBytes   868 Mbits/sec  0.023 ms  0/75515
> (0%)
> [  5]   4.00-5.00   sec   103 MBytes   868 Mbits/sec  0.018 ms  0/75137
> (0%)
> [  5]   5.00-6.00   sec   102 MBytes   855 Mbits/sec  0.018 ms  214/74521
> (0.29%)
> [  5]   6.00-7.00   sec   104 MBytes   867 Mbits/sec  0.015 ms  0/75371
> (0%)
> [  5]   7.00-8.00   sec   103 MBytes   867 Mbits/sec  0.016 ms  0/75074
> (0%)
> [  5]   8.00-9.00   sec   104 MBytes   867 Mbits/sec  0.020 ms  0/75475
> (0%)
> [  5]   9.00-10.00  sec   103 MBytes   867 Mbits/sec  0.017 ms  0/75057
> (0%)
> [  5]  10.00-11.00  sec   102 MBytes   855 Mbits/sec  0.025 ms  0/74420
> (0%)
> [  5]  11.00-11.10  sec  9.94 MBytes   863 Mbits/sec  0.016 ms  0/7242 (0%)
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Jitter    Lost/Total
> Datagrams
> [  5]   0.00-11.10  sec  1.12 GBytes   863 Mbits/sec  0.016 ms  437/832112
> (0.053%)  receiver
>
> --
> Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7
>
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