[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1847892] Re: large performance regression (~30-40%) in wifi with 19.10 / 5.3 kernel

2019-12-19 Thread arQon
Sorry Kai - I got swamped by real-life issues. I finally got the time to look into this a few days ago, and when I went to check on it then in case a kernel update had fixed things already, it looks like it has (or at least, mostly so) - peaks are back to 80+, so that's within wifi variance

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1847892] Re: large performance regression (~30-40%) in wifi with 19.10 / 5.3 kernel

2019-11-12 Thread arQon
Thanks Kai. Yes, I really want to use Ubuntu kernel to bisect: or at least, I need the option to be able to - because if the problem is coming from the Ubuntu patchset, I could spend weeks bisecting mainline and never find it, whereas if I bisect the Ubuntu tree I'm guaranteed to find it and that

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1847892] Re: large performance regression (~30-40%) in wifi with 19.10 / 5.3 kernel

2019-11-10 Thread Kai-Heng Feng
If you really want to use Ubuntu kernel to bisect, here's the tree: https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu.

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1847892] Re: large performance regression (~30-40%) in wifi with 19.10 / 5.3 kernel

2019-11-10 Thread Kai-Heng Feng
Please use mainline kernel tree do do bisection: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1847892 Title: large

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1847892] Re: large performance regression (~30-40%) in wifi with 19.10 / 5.3 kernel

2019-11-10 Thread arQon
Had the affected machine in here (i.e. "where the router is") for other reasons, so I was able to check those conditions too. As expected, it's a power / antenna / etc issue: Linux 5.3.0-19-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 18 09:04:39 UTC 2019 x86_64 Fri 08-Nov-19 03:29 sent 459,277,171 bytes

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1847892] Re: large performance regression (~30-40%) in wifi with 19.10 / 5.3 kernel

2019-11-02 Thread arQon
Okay - the 18.04.3 release I tested in September, which was fine, has 5.0.0-23. -29 is broken, as mentioned above. That's a pretty narrow window to work with. I'd prefer it if someone from Canonical took it from here. (Heck, there are probably few enough commits to that driver in that timeframe

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1847892] Re: large performance regression (~30-40%) in wifi with 19.10 / 5.3 kernel

2019-11-01 Thread arQon
16.04.6 turned out to have 4.15.0-45, which is one of the known-broken releases. Unsurprisingly, it delivered the same poor results as 5.3. I'm running low on sensible options here. I no longer have the bootable 18.04 stick I used before, but I can create a new one easily enough (as long as I

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1847892] Re: large performance regression (~30-40%) in wifi with 19.10 / 5.3 kernel

2019-10-30 Thread arQon
Any specific params you want for iperf BTW? I ran some basic tests against a VM after all: it might have lost a few %, but wireless is so slow that it's not going to make any meaningful difference. [ ID] IntervalTransferBandwidth Reads Dist(bin=16.0K) [ 4] 0.-11.4354

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1847892] Re: large performance regression (~30-40%) in wifi with 19.10 / 5.3 kernel

2019-10-26 Thread arQon
I expect so. I don't usually have a machine available to run as a server though, hence the preference for rsync. If you're concerned that the NAS might be the bottleneck, don't be. That's a sensible point to raise, but it's GbE and saturates it wired. (To say nothing of the months during which

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1847892] Re: large performance regression (~30-40%) in wifi with 19.10 / 5.3 kernel

2019-10-25 Thread Kai-Heng Feng
Is this reproducible via iperf? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1847892 Title: large performance regression (~30-40%) in wifi with 19.10 / 5.3 kernel Status in linux

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1847892] Re: large performance regression (~30-40%) in wifi with 19.10 / 5.3 kernel

2019-10-25 Thread arQon
The dist-upgrades have wiped out all the previous kernels, of course. The only one left on the machine at all was the 5.0 from 19.04, and that's no good either. :( Linux 5.0.0-29-generic #31-Ubuntu SMP Thu Sep 12 13:05:32 UTC 2019 x86_64 Wed 23-Oct-19 04:47 sent 459,277,171 bytes received 35

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1847892] Re: large performance regression (~30-40%) in wifi with 19.10 / 5.3 kernel

2019-10-17 Thread arQon
That machine doesn't have access to launchpad, so until someone fixes the bugs (referenced out in the other thread) so that "ubuntu-bug -c" works, I can't provide that info. Kai - this is a low-power HTPC, with very little disk space. Assuming it can even clone the kernel, it will likely take

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1847892] Re: large performance regression (~30-40%) in wifi with 19.10 / 5.3 kernel

2019-10-17 Thread arQon
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1847892 Title: large performance regression (~30-40%) in wifi with

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1847892] Re: large performance regression (~30-40%) in wifi with 19.10 / 5.3 kernel

2019-10-17 Thread Kai-Heng Feng
Would it be possible for you to do a kernel bisection? First, find the last good -rc kernel and the first bad -rc kernel from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ Then, $ sudo apt build-dep linux $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git $ cd linux $