Re: [PATCH v2 00/22] brcmsmac: Tx rework and expanded debug/trace support

["Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>]

On 12/03/2012 09:23 AM, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> Hi Seth,
> 
> On 26.11.2012 22:20, Daniel Wagner wrote:
>> On 26.11.2012 20:36, Seth Forshee wrote:
>>> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 08:35:28AM -0600, Seth Forshee wrote:
>>>>> My 'test' setup is following: I downloaded a larger file and let a
>>>>> youtube
>>>>> video play. With tracing enabled the download and the playback did
>>>>> work nicely.
>>>>>
>>>>> Without tracing enabled playing back only a youtube video was
>>>>> 'triggering'
>>>>> the problem. It downloads a few seconds of content in a burst and
>>>>> then the playback
>>>>> starts. Under normal conditions, the app will continue downloading
>>>>> the video at a
>>>>> lower rate. But this normally doesn't happen right now. Often it
>>>>> will just stop
>>>>> working and often the connection is completely blocked, e.g. pinging
>>>>> a host
>>>>> wont work.
>>>>
>>>> I'll see if I can reproduce, but if it's specific to the AP then I may
>>>> not have any luck. Don't expect to hear much from me until next week
>>>> though; I'm on holiday starting today and will be visiting family.
>>>
>>> It seems I'm unable to reproduce the problem with any of the APs
>>> available to me, unfortunately.
>>
>> I tried it again with disabled the TX trace but I can't reproduce it
>> either. Well, I am sick of this AP and I might just get a better one
>> (which should be fairly simple).
> 
> FYI, I got my old Netgear 11g AP out and I get a very 'smooth' wifi
> experience.
> 
> If you like you can add Tested-by tag :)

You basically tested 11g operation is ok. Still interesting to know,
because it may indicate that problems start happening when doing 11n
rates and/or A-MPDU sessions.

Gr. AvS