linux-kernel - Re: b44: regression in 2.6.22 (resend)

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Message-Id: <200705272236.42628.maxi@daemonizer.de>
Date:	Sun, 27 May 2007 22:36:39 +0200
From:	Maximilian Engelhardt <maxi@...monizer.de>
To:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
Cc:	"linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-wireless" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
	Gary Zambrano <zambrano@...adcom.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: b44: regression in 2.6.22 (resend)

On Sunday 27 May 2007, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Sunday 27 May 2007 21:25:17 Maximilian Engelhardt wrote:
> > 2.6.22-rc3:
> >
> > [  5] local 192.168.1.2 port 46557 connected with 192.168.1.1 port 5001
> > [  5]  0.0-60.4 sec  58.9 MBytes  8.18 Mbits/sec
> > [  4] local 192.168.1.2 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.1 port 51633
> > [  4]  0.0-63.1 sec  7.27 MBytes    967 Kbits/sec
>
> Why do we have two different measurements here? Is one TX and one RX?
> Which one?

Yes, the first is TX (BCM4401 --> e100) and the second is RX. Both are tcp 
connections. I think iperf does display the ip addresses wrong in the second 
connection, but that's another issue.

>
> > koala:~# ping -c10 192.168.1.1
> > PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.243 ms
> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.234 ms
> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.238 ms
> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.235 ms
> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.230 ms
> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=0.317 ms
> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=0.232 ms
> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=0.232 ms
> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=0.228 ms
> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=64 time=0.238 ms
> >
> > --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
> > 10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 8997ms
> > rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.228/0.242/0.317/0.031 ms
> >
> > System responsiveness was the same as with 2.6.21.1.
> >
> > wget got 11.23M/s, again same as 2.6.21.1.
> >
> >
> > 2.6.22-rc2-mm1:
> >
> > [  5] local 192.168.1.2 port 42198 connected with 192.168.1.1 port 5001
> > [  5]  0.0-60.1 sec    402 MBytes  56.1 Mbits/sec
> > [  4] local 192.168.1.2 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.1 port 48598
> > [  4]  0.0-63.0 sec    177 MBytes  23.6 Mbits/sec
>
> So with -mm (with ssb) you actually get better performace
> then with plain 2.6.22-rc3?
>
> Can you elaborate a bit more about what you get an what you expect
> on which kernel?

When I ran 2.6.21.1 or 2.6.22-rc3 without any debugging tools just in normal 
use I didn't notice any problems. It did work fine as I would expect it.
I think the wget and ping tests here are as they should be.

With 2.6.22-rc2-mm1 I noticed that connections seem to be slower. The ping 
test does confirm this, because here response times are very high. As far as 
I can remember the wget download rate was a bit slower than 2.6.21.1 or 
2.6.22-rc3 till it stalled.
I would expect it to be someting like the other two kernels. The two problems 
I see are the high ping times and the fact that the card stopped working.

I don't know why the iperf results are so different from my personal 
experience. I guess the fact that I get so bad results with 2.6.21.1 and 
2.6.22-rc3 is that iperf does something that causes the system to be 
extremely slow and thus degrading performance. This could be a bug somewhere 
in the b44 driver of 2.6.21.1 and 2.6.22-RC3 that has unintended been fixed 
by the ssb switch, but that's only a roughly guess.

Maxi

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