rum0 performance < 1Mbps; ath0 reboots system

Deceased deceased at webmail.vulcano.lt
Wed Jan 14 00:36:23 PST 2009


Hi, List,

Recently I've set up my non-lcd-wokring HP NX9020 notebook as ADSL
gateway and AP on 7.1-release

Everything works well except wireless. I have LogiLink WL0025 (RT2573)
which users rum(4) driver. I now it's not recomended to use rum cards as
hostap, but my ath(4) card works even worse(later on that).

IT is a USB stick so if it was connected as USB 1.0 device i would
expect that kind of performance, but it's not (i guess :) )

addr 1: UHCI root hub, Intel, device uhub0
addr 1: UHCI root hub, Intel, device uhub1
addr 1: UHCI root hub, Intel, device uhub2
addr 1: EHCI root hub, Intel, device uhub3
 addr 2: product 0x0018, vendor 0x13b1, device axe0
 addr 3: 802.11 bg WLAN, Ralink, device rum0

Also mind that I'm using USB ethernet adapter on the same USB root hub.

I tried to use Netgear WG511T (atheros 5212) (carbus) but it constantly
couses IRQ storms with cbb0 device, after I disable acpi it works, but
even slower than rum0 card and panics the machine if I remove the card
from working machine.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.
dmesg attached.


nbgw# vmstat -i
interrupt                          total       rate
irq0: clk                       44926114       1000
irq1: atkbd0                         186          0
irq8: rtc                        5749743        127
irq9: uhci2 acpi0                 264526          5
irq10: rl0 uhci0                  434405          9
irq11: cbb0 uhci1+              25789037        574
irq12: psm0                          136          0
irq14: ata0                       646740         14
Total                           77810887       1732
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FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan  1 14:37:25 UTC 2009
    root at logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
module_register: module uhub/rum already exists!
Module uhub/rum failed to register: 17
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor         1.30GHz (1296.76-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x6d6  Stepping = 6
  Features=0xafe9f9bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,TM,PBE>
real memory  = 502136832 (478 MB)
avail memory = 477327360 (455 MB)
kbd1 at kbdmux0
ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
acpi0: <HP 3084> on motherboard
acpi0: [ITHREAD]
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0
acpi_ec0: <Embedded Controller: GPE 0x1d> port 0x62,0x66 on acpi0
acpi_acad0: <AC Adapter> on acpi0
battery0: <ACPI Control Method Battery> on acpi0
acpi_lid0: <Control Method Lid Switch> on acpi0
acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
pci0: <base peripheral> at device 0.1 (no driver attached)
pci0: <base peripheral> at device 0.3 (no driver attached)
vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0x1800-0x1807 mem 0xe8000000-0xefffffff,0xe0000000-0xe007ffff irq 10 at device 2.0 on pci0
agp0: <Intel 8285xM (85xGM GMCH) SVGA controller> on vgapci0
agp0: detected 32636k stolen memory
agp0: aperture size is 128M
vgapci1: <VGA-compatible display> mem 0xf0000000-0xf7ffffff,0xe0080000-0xe00fffff at device 2.1 on pci0
uhci0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> port 0x1820-0x183f irq 10 at device 29.0 on pci0
uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
uhci0: [ITHREAD]
usb0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: <Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usb0
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B> port 0x1840-0x185f irq 11 at device 29.1 on pci0
uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
uhci1: [ITHREAD]
usb1: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B> on uhci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: <Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usb1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci2: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C> port 0x1860-0x187f at device 29.2 on pci0
uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED]
uhci2: [ITHREAD]
usb2: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C> on uhci2
usb2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2: <Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usb2
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ehci0: <Intel 82801DB/L/M (ICH4) USB 2.0 controller> mem 0xe0100000-0xe01003ff irq 11 at device 29.7 on pci0
ehci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
ehci0: [ITHREAD]
usb3: EHCI version 1.0
usb3: companion controllers, 2 ports each: usb0 usb1 usb2
usb3: <Intel 82801DB/L/M (ICH4) USB 2.0 controller> on ehci0
usb3: USB revision 2.0
uhub3: <Intel EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1> on usb3
uhub3: 6 ports with 6 removable, self powered
axe0: <vendor 0x13b1 product 0x0018, class 255/255, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2> on uhub3
axe0: AX88772, bufsz 1536, boundary 64
miibus0: <MII bus> on axe0
ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> PHY 16 on miibus0
ukphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
axe0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
axe0: WARNING: using obsoleted IFF_NEEDSGIANT flag
axe0: Ethernet address: 00:1d:7e:01:37:80
rum0: <Ralink 802.11 bg WLAN, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 3> on uhub3
rum0: MAC/BBP RT2573 (rev 0x2573a), RF RT2528
rum0: WARNING: using obsoleted IFF_NEEDSGIANT flag
rum0: Ethernet address: 00:1f:1f:23:8a:b5
pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0
pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0x3000-0x30ff mem 0xe0200000-0xe02000ff irq 10 at device 0.0 on pci2
miibus1: <MII bus> on rl0
rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> PHY 0 on miibus1
rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
rl0: Ethernet address: 00:c0:9f:7e:3d:ae
rl0: [ITHREAD]
cbb0: <TI1410 PCI-CardBus Bridge> at device 5.0 on pci2
cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0
pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0
cbb0: [ITHREAD]
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel ICH4 UDMA100 controller> port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0x1810-0x181f at device 31.1 on pci0
ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
ata0: [ITHREAD]
ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
ata1: [ITHREAD]
pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 31.3 (no driver attached)
pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 31.5 (no driver attached)
pci0: <simple comms, generic modem> at device 31.6 (no driver attached)
acpi_tz0: <Thermal Zone> on acpi0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
atkbd0: [ITHREAD]
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: [ITHREAD]
psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3
cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
p4tcc0: <CPU Frequency Thermal Control> on cpu0
ichss0: <SpeedStep ICH> on cpu0
ichss0: enabling SpeedStep support
pmtimer0 on isa0
orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xcd000-0xcdfff,0xdf000-0xdffff,0xe0000-0xe3fff pnpid ORM0000 on isa0
ppc0: parallel port not found.
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio0: port may not be enabled
sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio0: port may not be enabled
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 8250 or not responding
sio0: [FILTER]
sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio1: port may not be enabled
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1296757597 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
ad0: 38154MB <HTS424040M9AT00 MA2OA72A> at ata0-master UDMA100
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
Loading configuration files.
kernel dumps on /dev/ad0s1b
Entropy harvesting:
 interrupts
 ethernet
 point_to_point
 kickstart
.
swapon: adding /dev/ad0s1b as swap device
Starting file system checks:
/dev/ad0s1a: 3576 files, 137790 used, 116025 free (3353 frags, 14084 blocks, 1.3% fragmentation)
/dev/ad0s1e: DEFER FOR BACKGROUND CHECKING
/dev/ad0s1f: DEFER FOR BACKGROUND CHECKING
/dev/ad0s1d: DEFER FOR BACKGROUND CHECKING
Setting hostuuid: c0c6ee2e-da32-d911-8a7e-00c09f7e3dae.
Setting hostid: 0x54c2b641.
Mounting local file systems:
WARNING: /tmp was not properly dismounted
WARNING: /usr was not properly dismounted
WARNING: /var was not properly dismounted
.
Setting hostname: nbgw.anm.lan.
net.inet6.ip6.auto_linklocal:
1
 ->
0

security.bsd.see_other_uids:
1
 ->
0

net.inet.tcp.blackhole:
0
 ->
2

net.inet.udp.blackhole:
0
 ->
1

net.inet.tcp.drop_synfin:
0
 ->
1

lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
axe0: flags=108843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether 00:1d:7e:01:37:80
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active
rum0: flags=108843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether 00:1f:1f:23:8a:b5
        inet 10.10.23.254 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.10.23.255
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>
        status: associated
        ssid anm-lan channel 9 (2452 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:1f:1f:23:8a:b5
        authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 50 scanvalid 60 bgscan
        bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11g 7 roam:rate11g 5
        protmode CTS dtimperiod 1
rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=8<VLAN_MTU>
        ether 00:c0:9f:7e:3d:ae
        inet 192.168.15.254 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.15.255
        media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
        status: no carrier
Starting pflog.
Enabling pf.
Jan 13 21:48:17 pflogd[415]: [priv]: msg PRIV_OPEN_LOG received
No ALTQ support in kernel
ALTQ related functions disabled
pfctl:
pf not enabled

No ALTQ support in kernel
ALTQ related functions disabled
No ALTQ support in kernel
ALTQ related functions disabled
pf enabled
Additional routing options:
 IP gateway=YES
.
Starting devd.
hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest:
C1
 ->
C1

Additional IP options:
.
Mounting NFS file systems:
.
ELF ldconfig path: /lib /usr/lib /usr/lib/compat /usr/local/lib
a.out ldconfig path: /usr/lib/aout /usr/lib/compat/aout
Clearing /tmp (X related).
Starting xfs.
Creating and/or trimming log files:
.
Starting syslogd.
rl0: link state changed to UP
Starting mpd.
Checking for core dump on /dev/ad0s1b...
WARNING: attempt to net_add_domain(netgraph) after domainfinalize()
savecore: no dumps found
Initial i386 initialization:
.
Additional ABI support:
.
Starting named.
Jan 13 21:48:21 nbgw named[751]: the working directory is not writable
Starting dhcpd.
Starting dbus.
Starting hald.
Starting local daemons:
.
Updating motd
.
Mounting late file systems:
.
Configuring syscons:
 blanktime
.
Starting sshd.
Starting cron.
Local package initialization:
.
Starting inetd.
Starting hostapd.
Configuration file: /etc/hostapd.conf
Starting background file system checks in 60 seconds.
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interface=rum0

logger_syslog=-1
logger_syslog_level=0
logger_stdout=-1
logger_stdout_level=0
debug=4
dump_file=/tmp/hostapd.dump

ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
ssid=anm-lan
wpa=1
wpa_passphrase=Ylm4Adlt0LOBobZtvRJy6
wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
wpa_pairwise=CCMP
ieee8021x=0


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