After the previous fix to deal with invalid ECSA IEs in probe response frames, I've received more reports of trouble with this AP. I've been experimenting with one and have uncovered some odd behavior that I'm not sure how to deal with. I've found in testing TCP throughput with iperf that the performance ranges from somewhat inconsistent to downright terrible with Linux STAs. I've tried iwlwifi, ath9k, and brcmsmac, and all are similar. I also tested with OSX, and while performance is pretty inconsistent it never gets to the point of being absolutely terrible. My test setup has the iperf server behind the APs ethernet interface with the client on the STA. What I'm seeing under wireshark is that everything seems to go fine for a while, but sometimes the AP is failing to transmit the TCP ACKs from the iperf server to the STA in a timely fashion. This delay can be seconds in length, and I see it with iwlwifi, ath9k, and brcmsmac. I've run wireshark on my iperf server, and the delays do not show up between the same ACKs there. I see the delays when running the iperf client on OSX too, but they're never quite as bad. The difference seems to be that once the TCP window is exhaused, OSX enables power save for a couple hundred msecs before retransmitting. This somehow seems to get the AP to transmit the frames (though the TIM never indicates that there are any buffered frames). I don't see the problem if I prevent the AP from transmitting A-MPDUs, even if the STAs continue using aggregation. So it seems apparent that this AP has issues. I'm hoping to solicit some suggestions on how we might be able to deal with it. I could try to emulate the behavior I see from OSX, but that won't help for drivers that don't support power save. I posted some wireshark traces in case someone else can find something else informative that I've missed. They're at http://people.canonical.com/~sforshee/wndap350/: * iperf-iwlwifi.pcapng.gz: Trace from iperf client on Linux STA with iwlwifi * iperf-server.pcapng.gz: Trace from the iperf server for the same test as iperf-iwlwifi * iperf-osx.pcapng.gz: Trace from iperf client on OSX, using Broadcom wireless I'm happy to collect more data if there's anything else that would be useful. Thanks, Seth -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
