[PATCH v2] wcn36xx: Fix dynamic power saving

Bjorn Andersson bjorn.andersson at linaro.org
Mon Dec 11 07:41:40 PST 2017


On Mon 11 Dec 07:34 PST 2017, Ramon Fried wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 10:52:22AM +0200, Loic Poulain wrote:
> > Since driver does not report hardware dynamic power saving cap,
> > this is up to the mac80211 to manage power saving timeout and
> > state machine, using the ieee80211 config callback to report
> > PS changes. This patch enables/disables PS mode according to
> > the new configuration.
> > 
> > Remove old behaviour enabling PS mode in a static way, this make
> > the device unusable when power save is enabled since device is
> > forced to PS regardless RX/TX traffic.
> > 
> 
> Hi.
> I tried to see if this patch solves the ping delay once power save is
> turned on and it appears it doesn't (log below).
> I do see some change in the delay though in comparison to testing without the patch.
> Bjorn, How did you test it ?
> 

Without this patch I get ping times around a second and SSH is not
usable, with this patch I see similar ping times as you, but SSH is
usable.

I have not been able to run iperf, because I keep hitting
https://bugs.96boards.org/show_bug.cgi?id=663

Regards,
Bjorn



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