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FS#2391 - mac80211: ath9k AP fails to honour client's power save mode #6107

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openwrt-bot opened this issue Jul 16, 2019 · 0 comments
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Context:

I am using one device in AP mode, the other in client mode.
The client uses wpa_supplicant to do background scan to other channels that the data channel.
I am running iperf (UDP) __from the A__P to the client.

My device is home-made, Cavium development board-based, equipped with Compex WLE350NX.
It works correctly with kernel 3.18 and the 2015 wireless backport.
I updated to kernel 4.9 and the wireless backport 4.19.32-1, the last one from the trunk. (previously I used backport-2017-11-01 with the same result).

I am running wireshark with Airpcap to spy the wireless link.

Problem:

  • When the client scans offchannel, it correctly sends nullfunc frames around the offchannel period, with the PM bit set then unset.

  • However, during this time, the AP continues to send data to the client.

  • This results in a lot of lost frames, though I set the powersave buffers to high values on the AP side.

After some research I saw that the same kind of problem was fixed several times(*), but since there where so many changes in the queue management, I cannot really compare his work and the current state of the driver.

Any idea / patch / research directions ?

(*) https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5519541d5a5f19893546883547e2f0f2e5934df7

@aparcar aparcar added the kernel pull request/issue with Linux kernel related changes label Feb 22, 2022
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