On 07/22/16 11:36, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 08:25:11PM +0200, Andreas Bartelt wrote:
>> sorry, my response was not precise - the "fatal" error is gone now but the
>> observed performance problems are still there.
>
...
> In the best iwm performance regression report I've received so far, the
> reporter tracked the regression down to a particular commit (r1.86 if_iwm.c).
> Backing out that commit restores performance to 5.9 levels for this user.
> But this commit fixed an unrelated problem, which was that IPv6 autoconf and
> ARP briefly stopped working in -current after we upgraded iwm's firmware.
> I don't understand how this relates. It may involve invisible details handled
> within the magic firmware, or it may be a driver bug, or prior performance
> levels may have been a side effect of a real stability problem. In any case,
> I won't back out this commit to restore performance for one user if backing
> out that commit means that other known bugs will come back.
>
> More generally speaking, given that our 11n implementation is still in its
> infancy, and doesn't yet use any of the new features which are supposed to
> vastly increase throughput, it is premature to complain about performance.
> For now, stability gets priority.
>
Please don't get me wrong, my mail was not meant to be a complaint at
all. While tracking current (I think it was shortly before or after 5.9
had been released) I've been observing some serious stability problems
with regard to wireless for some time -- not only regarding iwm(4) on a
Lenovo x250 as wireless client but also on the hostap side (ral(4)
obviously in 11g mode and also running on current). The hostap box
crashed multiple times a day and had to be rebooted. These problems are
gone now, i.e., both sides don't crash anymore.
However, the wireless link via iwm(4) is currently almost unusable.
Overall throughput for multiple tcp connections typically between 0 and
1 Mbit/s but mostly on the lower end, i.e., 0.
The "fatal firmware error" problem doesn't seem to be resolved - it just
doesn't occur at every boot (see attached dmesg from yesterday's
current). The bad throughput seems to be independent from this error
message.
I could verify that an old x61s with wpi(4) currently performs
considerably better (throughput in the same setting is more stable at
about 175 Kbits/s). Consequently, the ral(4) interface in 11g hostap
mode at least doesn't seem to be the primary problem. Nevertheless, I've
also observed that the presence of the x250 laptop sometimes also kills
throughput of other wireless clients (iphone, ipad etc) - so I'm not
100% sure, i.e., the problems could at least be partially related to
ral(4) in 11g hostap mode.
Btw, can you recommend a (commercial or open source) wireless access
point which is known to work well with iwm(4) in 11n mode on current?
Best regards
Andreas
OpenBSD 6.0 (GENERIC.MP) #0: Sat Jul 23 09:03:23 CEST 2016
a...@obsd.bartelt.name:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
real mem = 8277159936 (7893MB)
avail mem = 8021778432 (7650MB)
mpath0 at root
scsibus0 at mpath0: 256 targets
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.7 @ 0xccbfd000 (64 entries)
bios0: vendor LENOVO version "N10ET38W (1.17 )" date 08/20/2015
bios0: LENOVO 20CMCTO1WW
acpi0 at bios0: rev 2
acpi0: sleep states S0 S3 S4 S5
acpi0: tables DSDT FACP ASF! HPET ECDT APIC MCFG SSDT SSDT SSDT SSDT SSDT SSDT
SSDT SSDT SSDT PCCT SSDT UEFI MSDM BATB FPDT UEFI DMAR
acpi0: wakeup devices LID_(S4) SLPB(S3) IGBE(S4) EXP2(S4) XHCI(S3) EHC1(S3)
acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits
acpihpet0 at acpi0: 14318179 Hz
acpiec0 at acpi0
acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee00000: PC-AT compat
cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor)
cpu0: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5600U CPU @ 2.60GHz, 798.28 MHz
cpu0:
FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE,SSE3,PCLMUL,DTES64,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,FMA3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,MOVBE,POPCNT,DEADLINE,AES,XSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND,NXE,PAGE1GB,LONG,LAHF,ABM,3DNOWP,PERF,ITSC,FSGSBASE,BMI1,HLE,AVX2,SMEP,BMI2,ERMS,INVPCID,RTM,RDSEED,ADX,SMAP,PT,SENSOR,ARAT
cpu0: 256KB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache
cpu0: smt 0, core 0, package 0
mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support, 10 var ranges, 88 fixed ranges
cpu0: apic clock running at 99MHz
cpu0: mwait min=64, max=64, C-substates=0.2.1.2.4.1.1.1, IBE
cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 1 (application processor)
cpu1: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5600U CPU @ 2.60GHz, 798.15 MHz
cpu1:
FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE,SSE3,PCLMUL,DTES64,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,FMA3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,MOVBE,POPCNT,DEADLINE,AES,XSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND,NXE,PAGE1GB,LONG,LAHF,ABM,3DNOWP,PERF,ITSC,FSGSBASE,BMI1,HLE,AVX2,SMEP,BMI2,ERMS,INVPCID,RTM,RDSEED,ADX,SMAP,PT,SENSOR,ARAT
cpu1: 256KB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache
cpu1: smt 1, core 0, package 0
cpu2 at mainbus0: apid 2 (application processor)
cpu2: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5600U CPU @ 2.60GHz, 798.15 MHz
cpu2:
FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE,SSE3,PCLMUL,DTES64,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,FMA3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,MOVBE,POPCNT,DEADLINE,AES,XSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND,NXE,PAGE1GB,LONG,LAHF,ABM,3DNOWP,PERF,ITSC,FSGSBASE,BMI1,HLE,AVX2,SMEP,BMI2,ERMS,INVPCID,RTM,RDSEED,ADX,SMAP,PT,SENSOR,ARAT
cpu2: 256KB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache
cpu2: smt 0, core 1, package 0
cpu3 at mainbus0: apid 3 (application processor)
cpu3: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5600U CPU @ 2.60GHz, 798.15 MHz
cpu3:
FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE,SSE3,PCLMUL,DTES64,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,FMA3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,MOVBE,POPCNT,DEADLINE,AES,XSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND,NXE,PAGE1GB,LONG,LAHF,ABM,3DNOWP,PERF,ITSC,FSGSBASE,BMI1,HLE,AVX2,SMEP,BMI2,ERMS,INVPCID,RTM,RDSEED,ADX,SMAP,PT,SENSOR,ARAT
cpu3: 256KB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache
cpu3: smt 1, core 1, package 0
ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 2 pa 0xfec00000, version 20, 40 pins
acpimcfg0 at acpi0 addr 0xf8000000, bus 0-63
acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0)
acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus -1 (PEG_)
acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus 2 (EXP1)
acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus 3 (EXP2)
acpiprt4 at acpi0: bus -1 (EXP3)
acpicpu0 at acpi0: C3(200@233 mwait.1@0x40), C2(200@148 mwait.1@0x33),
C1(1000@1 mwait.1), PSS
acpicpu1 at acpi0: C3(200@233 mwait.1@0x40), C2(200@148 mwait.1@0x33),
C1(1000@1 mwait.1), PSS
acpicpu2 at acpi0: C3(200@233 mwait.1@0x40), C2(200@148 mwait.1@0x33),
C1(1000@1 mwait.1), PSS
acpicpu3 at acpi0: C3(200@233 mwait.1@0x40), C2(200@148 mwait.1@0x33),
C1(1000@1 mwait.1), PSS
acpipwrres0 at acpi0: PUBS, resource for XHCI, EHC1
acpipwrres1 at acpi0: NVP3, resource for PEG_
acpipwrres2 at acpi0: NVP2, resource for PEG_
acpitz0 at acpi0: critical temperature is 128 degC
acpibtn0 at acpi0: LID_
acpibtn1 at acpi0: SLPB
"LEN0071" at acpi0 not configured
"LEN0046" at acpi0 not configured
acpibat0 at acpi0: BAT0 model "45N1113" serial 473 type LION oem "LGC"
acpibat1 at acpi0: BAT1 model "45N1738" serial 1842 type LION oem "LGC"
acpiac0 at acpi0: AC unit offline
acpithinkpad0 at acpi0
"PNP0C14" at acpi0 not configured
"PNP0C14" at acpi0 not configured
"PNP0C14" at acpi0 not configured
"INT340F" at acpi0 not configured
acpivideo0 at acpi0: VID_
acpivout at acpivideo0 not configured
acpivideo1 at acpi0: VID_
cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep 798 MHz: speeds: 2601, 2600, 2500, 2300, 2100, 2000,
1800, 1700, 1500, 1400, 1200, 1100, 900, 800, 600, 500 MHz
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel Core 5G Host" rev 0x09
inteldrm0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel HD Graphics 5500" rev 0x09
drm0 at inteldrm0
inteldrm0: msi
inteldrm0: 1920x1080
wsdisplay0 at inteldrm0 mux 1: console (std, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (std, vt100 emulation)
azalia0 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 "Intel Core 5G HD Audio" rev 0x09: msi
xhci0 at pci0 dev 20 function 0 "Intel 9 Series xHCI" rev 0x03: msi
usb0 at xhci0: USB revision 3.0
uhub0 at usb0 "Intel xHCI root hub" rev 3.00/1.00 addr 1
"Intel 9 Series MEI" rev 0x03 at pci0 dev 22 function 0 not configured
em0 at pci0 dev 25 function 0 "Intel I218-LM" rev 0x03: msi, address
50:7b:9d:90:08:06
azalia1 at pci0 dev 27 function 0 "Intel 9 Series HD Audio" rev 0x03: msi
azalia1: codecs: Realtek ALC292
audio0 at azalia1
ppb0 at pci0 dev 28 function 0 "Intel 9 Series PCIE" rev 0xe3: msi
pci1 at ppb0 bus 2
rtsx0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Realtek RTS5227 Card Reader" rev 0x01: msi
sdmmc0 at rtsx0: 4-bit
ppb1 at pci0 dev 28 function 1 "Intel 9 Series PCIE" rev 0xe3: msi
pci2 at ppb1 bus 3
iwm0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 7265" rev 0x99, msi
ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 9 Series USB" rev 0x03: apic 2 int 23
usb1 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub1 at usb1 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1
pcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 9 Series LPC" rev 0x03
ahci0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 9 Series AHCI" rev 0x03: msi, AHCI 1.3
ahci0: port 0: 6.0Gb/s
scsibus1 at ahci0: 32 targets
sd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <ATA, SAMSUNG MZ7LN512, EMT0> SCSI3 0/direct
fixed naa.5002538d00000000
sd0: 488386MB, 512 bytes/sector, 1000215216 sectors, thin
ichiic0 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 "Intel 9 Series SMBus" rev 0x03: apic 2 int 18
iic0 at ichiic0
pchtemp0 at pci0 dev 31 function 6 "Intel 9 Series Thermal" rev 0x03
isa0 at pcib0
isadma0 at isa0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 irq 1 irq 12
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0
wsmouse1 at pms0 mux 0
pms0: Synaptics clickpad, firmware 8.1
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
spkr0 at pcppi0
uhub2 at uhub1 port 1 "Intel Rate Matching Hub" rev 2.00/0.03 addr 2
vscsi0 at root
scsibus2 at vscsi0: 256 targets
softraid0 at root
scsibus3 at softraid0: 256 targets
sd1 at scsibus3 targ 1 lun 0: <OPENBSD, SR CRYPTO, 006> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd1: 458984MB, 512 bytes/sector, 939999472 sectors
root on sd1a (75b3938373e8ce78.a) swap on sd1b dump on sd1b
iwm0: hw rev 0x210, fw ver 16.242414.0, address 18:5e:0f:80:80:09
iwm0: could not initiate scan
iwm0: could not initiate scan
iwm0: could not initiate scan
iwm0: fatal firmware error
