Bug 215789

Summary: Extremely unstable connection on ax200
Product: Drivers Reporter: Kyle McGrath (kyle.mcgrath)
Component: network-wireless-intelAssignee: networking_wireless (networking_wireless)
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: high CC: kyle.mcgrath, regressions
Priority: P1    
Hardware: x86-64   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 5.17 Subsystem:
Regression: No Bisected commit-id:
Attachments: Log of iwlwifi on 5.17

Description Kyle McGrath 2022-04-01 14:05:34 UTC
Created attachment 300678 [details]
Log of iwlwifi on 5.17

Recently I updated to the Fedora 36 beta, with the 5.17 kernel. Ever since, I've experienced excessive issues with my Intel AX200 wireless card. Every other aspect of my usage has remained the same (laptop and router both in the same location, same number of devices on the network, etc.)

Before updating to 5.17, I was able to perform latency-sensitive tasks such as playing online games and use VoIP applications without issue, with acceptable latency. After updating to 5.17 it is at the point where I cannot have an enjoyable match due to constant ping spikes, often to the point where the game will "stutter" or "lock up" every 10 seconds or say, with excessively high ping to go along with this. My VoIP applications have similar issues with calls often being interrupted or distorted.

I reverted to 5.16.16 and this has alleviated the issue for the time being. I've included journal output from both 5.17 and 5.16 and you can see there are several issues/errors which are not present on 5.16.

Below is all I get from the journal for iwlwifi under 5.16. I've included 5.17 output as an attachment.


Apr 01 01:18:06 tarsonis kernel: iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
Apr 01 01:18:06 tarsonis kernel: iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: api flags index 2 larger than supported by driver
Apr 01 01:18:06 tarsonis kernel: iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: TLV_FW_FSEQ_VERSION: FSEQ Version: 89.3.35.37
Apr 01 01:18:06 tarsonis kernel: iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: loaded firmware version 67.8f59b80b.0 cc-a0-67.ucode op_mode iwlmvm
Apr 01 01:18:07 tarsonis kernel: iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX200 160MHz, REV=0x340
Apr 01 01:18:07 tarsonis kernel: iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Detected RF HR B3, rfid=0x10a100
Apr 01 01:18:07 tarsonis kernel: iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: base HW address: e0:d4:e8:a5:98:21
Apr 01 01:18:07 tarsonis kernel: iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0 wlp3s0: renamed from wlan0
Comment 1 The Linux kernel's regression tracker (Thorsten Leemhuis) 2022-05-20 07:41:42 UTC
I'm not a developer for this code, but considering mailing the maintainers about this. But before I do that a quick question: is the problem still happening with the latest kernel? Ideally try with the latest 5.18-rc kernel please.
Comment 2 The Linux kernel's regression tracker (Thorsten Leemhuis) 2022-05-31 15:46:23 UTC
Kyle, did you give 5.18 a try? Is this problem still present there?