Re: wl1271 with atmel-mci

[Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>]

Hi Everyone,


> I've had the wl1271 working for the most part on an Atmel 
> micro-controller, but I've been fighting with a bug for the past couple 
> of days.
> 
> The problem happens whenever I try to transmit large packets of data 
> (using iperf, or nc, etc) the driver would hang and no longer be able to 
> send packets. tx_queue_len in the debugfs would then grow as I tried to 
> send packets but nothing would actually be sent to the device. At the 
> same time receiving packets would consistently work all of the time.
> 
> When this occurred I usually got the following messages:
> 
> atmel_mci atmel_mci.0: data CRC error
> wl1271: ERROR sdio write failed (-84) - addr 0x14fd8, 1076 bytes, 1

Firstly, I'd like to let anyone who's interested know that the problem I 
had above turned out to be a hardware issue. I tried two newly populated 
boards which both turned out not to exhibit this problem. I now have the 
wl1271 working on two AT91SAM9G45-EKES development kits.

Using iperf I have gathered some performance data. I am seeing between a 
wl1271 device and a host PC (connected via a dlink router):

PC to Device: ~23.0Mbit/s
Device to PC: ~21.7Mbit/s

When running in Ad-Hoc mode between two devices I am getting between 
about 15Mbit/s and 17Mbit/s.

Does anyone have any insight as to why the Ad-Hoc mode between two 
devices is noticeably slower? Can anything be done to improve this?


Thanks,

Logan