Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:60898 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932778Ab2AKBm7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:42:59 -0500 Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:42:57 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: "Venkataraman, Meenakshi" Cc: Dan Williams , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "Grumbach, Emmanuel" , "Guy, Wey-Yi W" , Linux Wireless Subject: Re: iwlwifi worse than ever in current git. Message-ID: <20120111014257.GB22066@redhat.com> (sfid-20120111_024312_280417_421B33A2) References: <20120110184917.GA26973@redhat.com> <1326221614.5067.6.camel@dcbw.foobar.com> <4595B4D22AB93C4FABBA84AAD5AA37FD0154B1@ORSMSX104.amr.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <4595B4D22AB93C4FABBA84AAD5AA37FD0154B1@ORSMSX104.amr.corp.intel.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:05:25PM +0000, Venkataraman, Meenakshi wrote: > Hi Dan, > > >> For the last few releases, iwlwifi has been getting consistently worse > >> wrt reliability for me. > > [MV] Do you have an approximate idea of what release the failure started occurring? > > The failure mode has varied, from the chip > >> just locking up with no tx/rx of packets with nothing being logged, to > >> microcode warnings, and spewing 'Tx aggregation enabled' messages over > >and over. > > [MV] I'm not sure if it is related to the problem you're seeing, but I see that you're using a 5300, so can you try to load the iwlwifi module with the following parameter and see if it helps? > > modprobe iwlagn bt_coex_active=0 Seems to make no difference at all. Dave