High battery usage with ath11k on Dell 9310
Mark Herbert
mark.herbert42 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 13 09:37:48 PDT 2021
I've tried to apply
[PATCH] ath11k: enable power save in station mode
It did not apply over the ath-next but being applied manually drivers
compiled and I can now reach PC8 state. And it stays pretty much time
there -88% if laptop is idle. So I hope if this patch will make it to
the main tree it will solve one of the bugs.
On 10.10.2021 15:24, Mark Herbert wrote:
> Simply disabling wifi drops 0.8-1 watts from power consumption.
> Comparing almost same model (16 gb RAM vs 32) but based on Intel card
> shows the same difference - Intel based laptop with WiFi connected
> consumes about same as ath11k with Wifi discnnected.
>
> Powertop newer shows PC states below PC6. Disabling WiFi allows PC8,
> disabling ath11k completely (bios) - PC10.
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> Wifi enabled
>
> Pkg(HW)
> C2 (pc2) 18,5% |
> C3 (pc3) 14,2% |
> C6 (pc6) 47,5% |
> C7 (pc7) 0,0% |
> C8 (pc8) 0,0% |
> C9 (pc9) 0,0% |
> C10 (pc10) 0,0% |
>
> Wfi disabled (by networkmanager/nm-applet)
>
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> Pkg(HW)
> C2 (pc2) 10,8% |
> C3 (pc3) 18,5% |
> C6 (pc6) 1,1% |
> C7 (pc7) 0,3% |
> C8 (pc8) 28,3% |
> C9 (pc9) 0,0% |
> C10 (pc10) 0,0% |
>
> Seems that even on no network activity ath11k forces CPU to stay awake
> and eat battery. There are some background transfer happening as I
> have Viber, thunderbird and firefox opened so I bet they do sent some
> but there is no file transfers, media streams etc. Under the same
> conditions (taking this disk from one 9310 to other 9310 - same
> software, same kernel - just wifi's different) - iwlwifi manages to
> reach PC8-PC10 being connected. With ath10k on dell XPS-13 9350 intel
> also was saving battery much better than ath10k, bit there was like
> 88% of PC10 with intel and 65% PC10 and 20% PC8 with ath10k. But it
> was not such terribly bad as with ath11.
>
> There is already kernel bug for this, not creating duplicates
>
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214543
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