[Make-wifi-fast] Weird periodic latency

[Michael Yartys]

On Saturday, January 16th, 2021 at 18:48, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:

> That implies it is doing a channel scan. Dumb.
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> https://blog.cerowrt.org/post/disabling_channel_scans/
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> but what you encountered seemed more disabling than that, and the
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> ath10k is supposed to be able to do background channel scans.

The tests where I experienced the roller-coaster high latency were the result of a fluke I believe. It went away after a reboot and I wasn't readily able to reproduce it. Also, I believe there's some confusion here since my laptop, which was doing the background scans, has an Intel 7260AC card. ath10k is not at fault here (might have been during the fluke, but who knows).

> On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 6:47 AM Michael Yartys
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> michael.yartys at protonmail.com wrote:
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> > I'm pretty sure I've managed to figure out what causes the short sharp periodic latency spikes. The Gnome location service uses the surrounding wireless networks as one of the methods to determine your location. When it's turned on I get the following results:
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> > https://imgur.com/a/pNXuVRe
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> > When it's disabled the latency spikes are gone (and notice that AQL is working here as there is some background traffic from other clients):
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> > https://imgur.com/a/v4wWkAC
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> > Now, I wasn't able to reproduce the weird roller coaster like latency that I saw previously. I rebooted the laptop before I did these tests, so I guess that solved it.
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> > Michael
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