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Re: RTL8723BE performance regression

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On 04/03/2018 09:37 PM, João Paulo Rechi Vita wrote:
On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 7:28 PM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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As the antenna selection code changes affected your first bisection, do you
have one of those HP laptops with only one antenna and the incorrect coding
in the FUSE?

Yes, that is why I've been passing ant_sel=1 during my tests -- this
was needed to achieve a good performance in the past, before this
regression. I've also opened the laptop chassis and confirmed the
antenna cable is plugged to the connector labeled with "1" on the
card.

If so, please make sure that you still have the same signal
strength for good and bad cases. I have tried to keep the driver and the
btcoex code in sync, but there may be some combinations of antenna
configuration and FUSE contents that cause the code to fail.


What is the recommended way to monitor the signal strength?

The btcoex code is developed for multiple platforms by a different group than the Linux driver. I think they made a change that caused ant_sel to switch from 1 to 2. At least numerous comments at github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new claimed they needed to make that change.

Mhy recommended method is to verify the wifi device name with "iw dev". Then using that device

sudo iw dev <dev_name> scan | egrep "SSID|signal"

Larry






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