| 2017-03-04 19:32:49 |
Dmitrii Shcherbakov |
bug |
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added bug |
| 2017-03-04 19:34:28 |
Dmitrii Shcherbakov |
summary |
Poor performance of Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac (rev 32) () |
Poor performance of Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac (rev 32) (Killer Wireless 1535) |
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| 2017-03-04 20:00:12 |
Brad Figg |
linux (Ubuntu): status |
New |
Confirmed |
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| 2017-03-05 16:06:08 |
Dmitrii Shcherbakov |
description |
I experience a very poor 802.11ac performance of a QCA6174 Wireless card (Killer Wireless 1535).
This is a dev version of Zesty with a recently released 4.10 kernel:
uname -r
4.10.0-9-generic
dpkg -l linux-firmware | grep ii
ii linux-firmware 1.163 all Firmware for Linux kernel drivers
lspci -vvv:
...
3b:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 32)
Subsystem: Bigfoot Networks, Inc. QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 334
Region 0: Memory at dd200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ath10k_pci
Kernel modules: ath10k_pci
-----------------------------------------
Testing wireless speed with RT-87U 802.11ac router shows that the speed is only 27.3 megabits per second which is very low for an 802.11ac card:
iperf -c rtr
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to rtr, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 3] local 10.10.10.78 port 48930 connected with 10.10.10.1 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 32.6 MBytes 27.3 Mbits/sec
------------------------------------
For comparison, on the same network (from the same distance to the router) I have the following result with an Intel's card (on a 4.8 kernel, different laptop):
UX32LN:~$ lspci | grep 7260
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev bb)
UX32LN:~$ iperf -c rtr
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to rtr, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 3] local 10.10.10.208 port 37196 connected with 10.10.10.1 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.1 sec 237 MBytes 198 Mbits/sec
administrator@UX32LN:~$ lsp
lspci lspcmcia lspgpot
200 Mbps is much better.
-----------------------------------
Back to the problematic card:
Booted 16.04.2 with the rolling HWE kernel 4.8:
journalctl -k | grep -i ath
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: pci irq msi oper_irq_mode 2 irq_mode 0 reset_mode 0
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/pre-cal-pci-0000:3b:00.0.bin failed with error -2
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/cal-pci-0000:3b:00.0.bin failed with error -2
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-5.bin failed with error -2
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: could not fetch firmware file 'ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-5.bin': -2
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: qca6174 hw3.2 target 0x05030000 chip_id 0x00340aff sub 1a56:1535
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: kconfig debug 0 debugfs 1 tracing 1 dfs 0 testmode 0
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: firmware ver WLAN.RM.2.0-00180-QCARMSWPZ-1 api 4 features wowlan,ignore-otp,no-4addr-pad crc32 75dee6c5
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: board_file api 2 bmi_id N/A crc32 6fc88fe7
Mar 04 18:28:34 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: htt-ver 3.26 wmi-op 4 htt-op 3 cal otp max-sta 32 raw 0 hwcrypto 1
Mar 04 18:28:34 ubuntu kernel: ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x6c
Mar 04 18:28:34 ubuntu kernel: ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
Mar 04 18:28:34 ubuntu kernel: ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
Mar 04 18:28:34 ubuntu kernel: ath: Regpair used: 0x6c
Mar 04 18:28:34 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0 wlp59s0: renamed from wlan0
iperf -c 10.10.10.1
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 10.10.10.1, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 3] local 10.10.10.78 port 43786 connected with 10.10.10.1 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 43.0 MBytes 36.0 Mbits/sec
--------------------------------
Booted on 4.4 General Availability kernel - the card did not work at all:
Mar 04 18:51:54 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: failed to enable dynamic BW: -11
Mar 04 18:52:00 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: could not suspend target (-11)
--------------------------------
The card's product name is Killer Wireless-AC 1535:
http://www.killernetworking.com/products/killer-wireless-ac-1535
The card vendor refers to linux-firmware 1.163:
http://www.killernetworking.com/driver-downloads/knowledge-base?view=topic&id=2
---------------------------------
I tend to blame Atheros firmware so I've tried whatever kvalo has in the ath10k-firmware
https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware
sudo rmmod ath10k_pci ath10k_core ath mac80211 cfg80211
# this gets rid of some of the kernel warnings about firmware but the performance remains low
sudo cp ath10k-firmware/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-4.bin_WLAN.RM.2.0-00180-QCARMSWPZ-1 /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-5.bin
sudo cp ath10k-firmware/QCA6174/hw3.0/board-2.bin /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/board-2.bin
sudo modprobe -a ath10k_pci ath10k_core ath mac80211 cfg80211
----------------------------------
Tried both 5.0 GHz and 2.4 GHz modes - got similar results.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: linux-image-4.10.0-9-generic 4.10.0-9.11
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-9.11-generic 4.10.0
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-9-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: dima 3458 F.... pulseaudio
/dev/snd/controlC1: dima 3458 F.... pulseaudio
CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7
Date: Sat Mar 4 22:03:00 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-02-27 (5 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Alpha amd64 (20170227)
MachineType: Razer Blade
ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.10.0-9-generic.efi.signed root=UUID=3f515c94-cd91-48b4-80f6-84ec24cb7b8f ro rootflags=subvol=@ quiet button.lid_init_state=open pcie_aspm=off
RelatedPackageVersions:
linux-restricted-modules-4.10.0-9-generic N/A
linux-backports-modules-4.10.0-9-generic N/A
linux-firmware 1.163
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 01/10/2017
dmi.bios.vendor: Razer
dmi.bios.version: 1.00
dmi.board.name: Razer
dmi.board.vendor: Razer
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: Razer
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnRazer:bvr1.00:bd01/10/2017:svnRazer:pnBlade:pvr6.06:rvnRazer:rnRazer:rvr:cvnRazer:ct9:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Blade
dmi.product.version: 6.06
dmi.sys.vendor: Razer |
Update: added some forensics in the paste (a long read):
http://paste.ubuntu.com/24118478/
TL;DR with a bit of intuition:
We need a new firmware-5.bin from Qualcomm Atheros for this rev 32 card in order to make it work well - if anybody has contacts there it would be nice to ask them to upload this to the upstream linux-firmware tree.
3b:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 32)
qca6174 hw3.2 target 0x05030000 chip_id 0x00340aff sub 1a56:1535
Original message:
------
I experience a very poor 802.11ac performance of a QCA6174 Wireless card (Killer Wireless 1535).
This is a dev version of Zesty with a recently released 4.10 kernel:
uname -r
4.10.0-9-generic
dpkg -l linux-firmware | grep ii
ii linux-firmware 1.163 all Firmware for Linux kernel drivers
lspci -vvv:
...
3b:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 32)
Subsystem: Bigfoot Networks, Inc. QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 334
Region 0: Memory at dd200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ath10k_pci
Kernel modules: ath10k_pci
-----------------------------------------
Testing wireless speed with RT-87U 802.11ac router shows that the speed is only 27.3 megabits per second which is very low for an 802.11ac card:
iperf -c rtr
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to rtr, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 3] local 10.10.10.78 port 48930 connected with 10.10.10.1 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 32.6 MBytes 27.3 Mbits/sec
------------------------------------
For comparison, on the same network (from the same distance to the router) I have the following result with an Intel's card (on a 4.8 kernel, different laptop):
UX32LN:~$ lspci | grep 7260
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev bb)
UX32LN:~$ iperf -c rtr
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to rtr, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 3] local 10.10.10.208 port 37196 connected with 10.10.10.1 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.1 sec 237 MBytes 198 Mbits/sec
administrator@UX32LN:~$ lsp
lspci lspcmcia lspgpot
200 Mbps is much better.
-----------------------------------
Back to the problematic card:
Booted 16.04.2 with the rolling HWE kernel 4.8:
journalctl -k | grep -i ath
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: pci irq msi oper_irq_mode 2 irq_mode 0 reset_mode 0
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/pre-cal-pci-0000:3b:00.0.bin failed with error -2
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/cal-pci-0000:3b:00.0.bin failed with error -2
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-5.bin failed with error -2
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: could not fetch firmware file 'ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-5.bin': -2
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: qca6174 hw3.2 target 0x05030000 chip_id 0x00340aff sub 1a56:1535
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: kconfig debug 0 debugfs 1 tracing 1 dfs 0 testmode 0
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: firmware ver WLAN.RM.2.0-00180-QCARMSWPZ-1 api 4 features wowlan,ignore-otp,no-4addr-pad crc32 75dee6c5
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: board_file api 2 bmi_id N/A crc32 6fc88fe7
Mar 04 18:28:34 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: htt-ver 3.26 wmi-op 4 htt-op 3 cal otp max-sta 32 raw 0 hwcrypto 1
Mar 04 18:28:34 ubuntu kernel: ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x6c
Mar 04 18:28:34 ubuntu kernel: ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
Mar 04 18:28:34 ubuntu kernel: ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
Mar 04 18:28:34 ubuntu kernel: ath: Regpair used: 0x6c
Mar 04 18:28:34 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0 wlp59s0: renamed from wlan0
iperf -c 10.10.10.1
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 10.10.10.1, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 3] local 10.10.10.78 port 43786 connected with 10.10.10.1 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 43.0 MBytes 36.0 Mbits/sec
--------------------------------
Booted on 4.4 General Availability kernel - the card did not work at all:
Mar 04 18:51:54 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: failed to enable dynamic BW: -11
Mar 04 18:52:00 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: could not suspend target (-11)
--------------------------------
The card's product name is Killer Wireless-AC 1535:
http://www.killernetworking.com/products/killer-wireless-ac-1535
The card vendor refers to linux-firmware 1.163:
http://www.killernetworking.com/driver-downloads/knowledge-base?view=topic&id=2
---------------------------------
I tend to blame Atheros firmware so I've tried whatever kvalo has in the ath10k-firmware
https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware
sudo rmmod ath10k_pci ath10k_core ath mac80211 cfg80211
# this gets rid of some of the kernel warnings about firmware but the performance remains low
sudo cp ath10k-firmware/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-4.bin_WLAN.RM.2.0-00180-QCARMSWPZ-1 /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-5.bin
sudo cp ath10k-firmware/QCA6174/hw3.0/board-2.bin /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/board-2.bin
sudo modprobe -a ath10k_pci ath10k_core ath mac80211 cfg80211
----------------------------------
Tried both 5.0 GHz and 2.4 GHz modes - got similar results.
----------------------------------
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: linux-image-4.10.0-9-generic 4.10.0-9.11
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-9.11-generic 4.10.0
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-9-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: dima 3458 F.... pulseaudio
/dev/snd/controlC1: dima 3458 F.... pulseaudio
CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7
Date: Sat Mar 4 22:03:00 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-02-27 (5 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Alpha amd64 (20170227)
MachineType: Razer Blade
ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.10.0-9-generic.efi.signed root=UUID=3f515c94-cd91-48b4-80f6-84ec24cb7b8f ro rootflags=subvol=@ quiet button.lid_init_state=open pcie_aspm=off
RelatedPackageVersions:
linux-restricted-modules-4.10.0-9-generic N/A
linux-backports-modules-4.10.0-9-generic N/A
linux-firmware 1.163
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 01/10/2017
dmi.bios.vendor: Razer
dmi.bios.version: 1.00
dmi.board.name: Razer
dmi.board.vendor: Razer
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: Razer
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnRazer:bvr1.00:bd01/10/2017:svnRazer:pnBlade:pvr6.06:rvnRazer:rnRazer:rvr:cvnRazer:ct9:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Blade
dmi.product.version: 6.06
dmi.sys.vendor: Razer |
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| 2017-03-05 17:05:04 |
Dmitrii Shcherbakov |
attachment added |
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.inf file parsed by Windows https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1670041/+attachment/4831855/+files/killer-wireless-firmware.png |
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| 2017-03-06 15:17:29 |
Joseph Salisbury |
linux (Ubuntu): importance |
Undecided |
Medium |
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| 2017-03-06 15:17:38 |
Joseph Salisbury |
linux (Ubuntu): status |
Confirmed |
Incomplete |
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| 2017-03-06 17:40:43 |
Dmitrii Shcherbakov |
attachment added |
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dmesg-4.11.0-041100rc1-generic.log https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1670041/+attachment/4832453/+files/dmesg-4.11.0-041100rc1-generic.log |
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| 2017-03-06 17:42:31 |
Dmitrii Shcherbakov |
tags |
amd64 apport-bug zesty |
amd64 apport-bug kernel-bug-exists-upstream zesty |
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| 2017-03-06 17:42:40 |
Dmitrii Shcherbakov |
linux (Ubuntu): status |
Incomplete |
Confirmed |
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| 2017-03-12 18:46:00 |
Chris Le Sueur |
bug |
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added subscriber Chris Le Sueur |
| 2017-03-22 13:22:05 |
Eiko |
bug |
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added subscriber Eiko |
| 2017-05-01 17:03:06 |
Paul |
bug |
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added subscriber Paul |
| 2017-05-01 20:44:54 |
dh |
bug |
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| 2017-05-04 18:27:01 |
JonAbrah |
bug |
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| 2017-05-05 18:06:09 |
Joseph Salisbury |
linux (Ubuntu): assignee |
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Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury) |
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| 2017-05-05 18:06:12 |
Joseph Salisbury |
linux (Ubuntu): status |
Confirmed |
In Progress |
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| 2017-05-05 18:20:29 |
Joseph Salisbury |
nominated for series |
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Ubuntu Zesty |
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| 2017-05-05 18:20:29 |
Joseph Salisbury |
bug task added |
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linux (Ubuntu Zesty) |
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| 2017-05-05 18:20:35 |
Joseph Salisbury |
linux (Ubuntu Zesty): importance |
Undecided |
Medium |
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| 2017-05-05 18:20:38 |
Joseph Salisbury |
linux (Ubuntu Zesty): status |
New |
In Progress |
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| 2017-05-05 18:20:40 |
Joseph Salisbury |
linux (Ubuntu Zesty): assignee |
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Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury) |
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| 2017-06-04 13:27:16 |
Dmitrii Shcherbakov |
description |
Update: added some forensics in the paste (a long read):
http://paste.ubuntu.com/24118478/
TL;DR with a bit of intuition:
We need a new firmware-5.bin from Qualcomm Atheros for this rev 32 card in order to make it work well - if anybody has contacts there it would be nice to ask them to upload this to the upstream linux-firmware tree.
3b:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 32)
qca6174 hw3.2 target 0x05030000 chip_id 0x00340aff sub 1a56:1535
Original message:
------
I experience a very poor 802.11ac performance of a QCA6174 Wireless card (Killer Wireless 1535).
This is a dev version of Zesty with a recently released 4.10 kernel:
uname -r
4.10.0-9-generic
dpkg -l linux-firmware | grep ii
ii linux-firmware 1.163 all Firmware for Linux kernel drivers
lspci -vvv:
...
3b:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 32)
Subsystem: Bigfoot Networks, Inc. QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 334
Region 0: Memory at dd200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ath10k_pci
Kernel modules: ath10k_pci
-----------------------------------------
Testing wireless speed with RT-87U 802.11ac router shows that the speed is only 27.3 megabits per second which is very low for an 802.11ac card:
iperf -c rtr
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to rtr, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 3] local 10.10.10.78 port 48930 connected with 10.10.10.1 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 32.6 MBytes 27.3 Mbits/sec
------------------------------------
For comparison, on the same network (from the same distance to the router) I have the following result with an Intel's card (on a 4.8 kernel, different laptop):
UX32LN:~$ lspci | grep 7260
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev bb)
UX32LN:~$ iperf -c rtr
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to rtr, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 3] local 10.10.10.208 port 37196 connected with 10.10.10.1 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.1 sec 237 MBytes 198 Mbits/sec
administrator@UX32LN:~$ lsp
lspci lspcmcia lspgpot
200 Mbps is much better.
-----------------------------------
Back to the problematic card:
Booted 16.04.2 with the rolling HWE kernel 4.8:
journalctl -k | grep -i ath
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: pci irq msi oper_irq_mode 2 irq_mode 0 reset_mode 0
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/pre-cal-pci-0000:3b:00.0.bin failed with error -2
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/cal-pci-0000:3b:00.0.bin failed with error -2
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-5.bin failed with error -2
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: could not fetch firmware file 'ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-5.bin': -2
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: qca6174 hw3.2 target 0x05030000 chip_id 0x00340aff sub 1a56:1535
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: kconfig debug 0 debugfs 1 tracing 1 dfs 0 testmode 0
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: firmware ver WLAN.RM.2.0-00180-QCARMSWPZ-1 api 4 features wowlan,ignore-otp,no-4addr-pad crc32 75dee6c5
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: board_file api 2 bmi_id N/A crc32 6fc88fe7
Mar 04 18:28:34 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: htt-ver 3.26 wmi-op 4 htt-op 3 cal otp max-sta 32 raw 0 hwcrypto 1
Mar 04 18:28:34 ubuntu kernel: ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x6c
Mar 04 18:28:34 ubuntu kernel: ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
Mar 04 18:28:34 ubuntu kernel: ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
Mar 04 18:28:34 ubuntu kernel: ath: Regpair used: 0x6c
Mar 04 18:28:34 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0 wlp59s0: renamed from wlan0
iperf -c 10.10.10.1
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 10.10.10.1, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 3] local 10.10.10.78 port 43786 connected with 10.10.10.1 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 43.0 MBytes 36.0 Mbits/sec
--------------------------------
Booted on 4.4 General Availability kernel - the card did not work at all:
Mar 04 18:51:54 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: failed to enable dynamic BW: -11
Mar 04 18:52:00 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: could not suspend target (-11)
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The card's product name is Killer Wireless-AC 1535:
http://www.killernetworking.com/products/killer-wireless-ac-1535
The card vendor refers to linux-firmware 1.163:
http://www.killernetworking.com/driver-downloads/knowledge-base?view=topic&id=2
---------------------------------
I tend to blame Atheros firmware so I've tried whatever kvalo has in the ath10k-firmware
https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware
sudo rmmod ath10k_pci ath10k_core ath mac80211 cfg80211
# this gets rid of some of the kernel warnings about firmware but the performance remains low
sudo cp ath10k-firmware/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-4.bin_WLAN.RM.2.0-00180-QCARMSWPZ-1 /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-5.bin
sudo cp ath10k-firmware/QCA6174/hw3.0/board-2.bin /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/board-2.bin
sudo modprobe -a ath10k_pci ath10k_core ath mac80211 cfg80211
----------------------------------
Tried both 5.0 GHz and 2.4 GHz modes - got similar results.
----------------------------------
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: linux-image-4.10.0-9-generic 4.10.0-9.11
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-9.11-generic 4.10.0
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-9-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: dima 3458 F.... pulseaudio
/dev/snd/controlC1: dima 3458 F.... pulseaudio
CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7
Date: Sat Mar 4 22:03:00 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-02-27 (5 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Alpha amd64 (20170227)
MachineType: Razer Blade
ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.10.0-9-generic.efi.signed root=UUID=3f515c94-cd91-48b4-80f6-84ec24cb7b8f ro rootflags=subvol=@ quiet button.lid_init_state=open pcie_aspm=off
RelatedPackageVersions:
linux-restricted-modules-4.10.0-9-generic N/A
linux-backports-modules-4.10.0-9-generic N/A
linux-firmware 1.163
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 01/10/2017
dmi.bios.vendor: Razer
dmi.bios.version: 1.00
dmi.board.name: Razer
dmi.board.vendor: Razer
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: Razer
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnRazer:bvr1.00:bd01/10/2017:svnRazer:pnBlade:pvr6.06:rvnRazer:rnRazer:rvr:cvnRazer:ct9:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Blade
dmi.product.version: 6.06
dmi.sys.vendor: Razer |
Update (2017-05-20):
Kalle Valo suggested a hack which increased client -> AP TCP performance - so it does not look like a firmware issue as I thought originally, rather an ath10k driver issue:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1670041/comments/11
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/5784701/ (the hack is at the bottom)
Tested here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1670041/comments/17
Update: added some forensics in the paste (a long read):
http://paste.ubuntu.com/24118478/
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3b:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 32)
qca6174 hw3.2 target 0x05030000 chip_id 0x00340aff sub 1a56:1535
Original message:
------
I experience a very poor 802.11ac performance of a QCA6174 Wireless card (Killer Wireless 1535).
This is a dev version of Zesty with a recently released 4.10 kernel:
uname -r
4.10.0-9-generic
dpkg -l linux-firmware | grep ii
ii linux-firmware 1.163 all Firmware for Linux kernel drivers
lspci -vvv:
...
3b:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 32)
Subsystem: Bigfoot Networks, Inc. QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 334
Region 0: Memory at dd200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ath10k_pci
Kernel modules: ath10k_pci
-----------------------------------------
Testing wireless speed with RT-87U 802.11ac router shows that the speed is only 27.3 megabits per second which is very low for an 802.11ac card:
iperf -c rtr
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to rtr, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 3] local 10.10.10.78 port 48930 connected with 10.10.10.1 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 32.6 MBytes 27.3 Mbits/sec
------------------------------------
For comparison, on the same network (from the same distance to the router) I have the following result with an Intel's card (on a 4.8 kernel, different laptop):
UX32LN:~$ lspci | grep 7260
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev bb)
UX32LN:~$ iperf -c rtr
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to rtr, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 3] local 10.10.10.208 port 37196 connected with 10.10.10.1 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.1 sec 237 MBytes 198 Mbits/sec
administrator@UX32LN:~$ lsp
lspci lspcmcia lspgpot
200 Mbps is much better.
-----------------------------------
Back to the problematic card:
Booted 16.04.2 with the rolling HWE kernel 4.8:
journalctl -k | grep -i ath
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: pci irq msi oper_irq_mode 2 irq_mode 0 reset_mode 0
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/pre-cal-pci-0000:3b:00.0.bin failed with error -2
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/cal-pci-0000:3b:00.0.bin failed with error -2
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-5.bin failed with error -2
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: could not fetch firmware file 'ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-5.bin': -2
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: qca6174 hw3.2 target 0x05030000 chip_id 0x00340aff sub 1a56:1535
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: kconfig debug 0 debugfs 1 tracing 1 dfs 0 testmode 0
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: firmware ver WLAN.RM.2.0-00180-QCARMSWPZ-1 api 4 features wowlan,ignore-otp,no-4addr-pad crc32 75dee6c5
Mar 04 18:28:31 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: board_file api 2 bmi_id N/A crc32 6fc88fe7
Mar 04 18:28:34 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: htt-ver 3.26 wmi-op 4 htt-op 3 cal otp max-sta 32 raw 0 hwcrypto 1
Mar 04 18:28:34 ubuntu kernel: ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x6c
Mar 04 18:28:34 ubuntu kernel: ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
Mar 04 18:28:34 ubuntu kernel: ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
Mar 04 18:28:34 ubuntu kernel: ath: Regpair used: 0x6c
Mar 04 18:28:34 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0 wlp59s0: renamed from wlan0
iperf -c 10.10.10.1
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 10.10.10.1, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 3] local 10.10.10.78 port 43786 connected with 10.10.10.1 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 43.0 MBytes 36.0 Mbits/sec
--------------------------------
Booted on 4.4 General Availability kernel - the card did not work at all:
Mar 04 18:51:54 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: failed to enable dynamic BW: -11
Mar 04 18:52:00 ubuntu kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:3b:00.0: could not suspend target (-11)
--------------------------------
The card's product name is Killer Wireless-AC 1535:
http://www.killernetworking.com/products/killer-wireless-ac-1535
The card vendor refers to linux-firmware 1.163:
http://www.killernetworking.com/driver-downloads/knowledge-base?view=topic&id=2
---------------------------------
I tend to blame Atheros firmware so I've tried whatever kvalo has in the ath10k-firmware
https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware
sudo rmmod ath10k_pci ath10k_core ath mac80211 cfg80211
# this gets rid of some of the kernel warnings about firmware but the performance remains low
sudo cp ath10k-firmware/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-4.bin_WLAN.RM.2.0-00180-QCARMSWPZ-1 /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/firmware-5.bin
sudo cp ath10k-firmware/QCA6174/hw3.0/board-2.bin /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/board-2.bin
sudo modprobe -a ath10k_pci ath10k_core ath mac80211 cfg80211
----------------------------------
Tried both 5.0 GHz and 2.4 GHz modes - got similar results.
----------------------------------
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: linux-image-4.10.0-9-generic 4.10.0-9.11
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-9.11-generic 4.10.0
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-9-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: dima 3458 F.... pulseaudio
/dev/snd/controlC1: dima 3458 F.... pulseaudio
CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7
Date: Sat Mar 4 22:03:00 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-02-27 (5 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Alpha amd64 (20170227)
MachineType: Razer Blade
ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.10.0-9-generic.efi.signed root=UUID=3f515c94-cd91-48b4-80f6-84ec24cb7b8f ro rootflags=subvol=@ quiet button.lid_init_state=open pcie_aspm=off
RelatedPackageVersions:
linux-restricted-modules-4.10.0-9-generic N/A
linux-backports-modules-4.10.0-9-generic N/A
linux-firmware 1.163
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 01/10/2017
dmi.bios.vendor: Razer
dmi.bios.version: 1.00
dmi.board.name: Razer
dmi.board.vendor: Razer
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: Razer
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnRazer:bvr1.00:bd01/10/2017:svnRazer:pnBlade:pvr6.06:rvnRazer:rnRazer:rvr:cvnRazer:ct9:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Blade
dmi.product.version: 6.06
dmi.sys.vendor: Razer |
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