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kappanose
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 Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2018 11:44 pm Post subject: High Wifi Card Power Usage |
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My wifi card, as verified in powertop, constantly uses rought 6W of power, even when there isn't anything being downloaded/uploaded. The only way I can get this high usage to stop is by turning off my wifi card with ifconfig or something. I have read in other places that powertop isn't reliable for this sort of thing and generally the power values are rough estimates, but the next highest power-drainer is my display... at 630 mW, 10x lower than the wifi. I've tried using different network managers and just using wpa_supplicant, neither of which had an effect on this.
I'm using an Acer Aspire F5-573G with a QCA9377 wifi card and the ath10k_pci kernel module with kernel version 4.9.76. I can paste the output of dmesg/lspci/whatever here if it's relevant. Any suggestions would be appreciated! |
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eccerr0r
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2018 12:03 am Post subject: |
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At 6W, that thing should be somewhat roasting, is that part of the computer getting warm? I'm not sure I trust powertop numbers...
Usually only the CPU, GPU, and maybe chipset get warm...
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khayyam
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2018 6:45 am Post subject: |
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kappanose ...
do you have PCIEASPM_POWERSAVE enabled? ... see linux wireless for more details.
You might also check powersave is set:
| Code: | | # iw dev <interface> get power_save |
or to set ...
| Code: | | # iw dev <interface> set power_save on |
HTH & best ... khay |
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kappanose
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| Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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| I have ASPM and powersave both enabled. |
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khayyam
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| Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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| kappanose wrote: | | I have ASPM and powersave both enabled. |
kappanose ... well show us, because it (lspci) should show power/mA.
best ... khay |
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kappanose
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| Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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lspci on wifi card:
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03:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 31)
Subsystem: Lite-On Communications Inc QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 128
Region 0: Memory at b4200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/8 Maskable+ 64bit-
Address: fee0100c Data: 4142
Masking: 000000fe Pending: 00000000
Capabilities: [70] Express (v2) Endpoint, MSI 00
DevCap: MaxPayload 256 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s unlimited, L1 <64us
ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset- SlotPowerLimit 10.000W
DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
MaxPayload 256 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
DevSta: CorrErr+ UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr+ TransPend-
LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s <4us, L1 <64us
ClockPM+ Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot- ASPMOptComp+
LnkCtl: ASPM L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- CommClk+
ExtSynch- ClockPM+ AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Not Supported, TimeoutDis+, LTR+, OBFF Via message
DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis-, LTR+, OBFF Disabled
LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 2.5GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis-
Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS-
Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB
LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -6dB, EqualizationComplete-, EqualizationPhase1-
EqualizationPhase2-, EqualizationPhase3-, LinkEqualizationRequest-
Capabilities: [100 v2] Advanced Error Reporting
UESta: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
UEMsk: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
UESvrt: DLP+ SDES+ TLP- FCP+ CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF+ MalfTLP+ ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
CESta: RxErr+ BadTLP- BadDLLP+ Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr-
CEMsk: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr+
AERCap: First Error Pointer: 00, GenCap- CGenEn- ChkCap- ChkEn-
Capabilities: [148 v1] Virtual Channel
Caps: LPEVC=0 RefClk=100ns PATEntryBits=1
Arb: Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128-
Ctrl: ArbSelect=Fixed
Status: InProgress-
VC0: Caps: PATOffset=00 MaxTimeSlots=1 RejSnoopTrans-
Arb: Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128- TWRR128- WRR256-
Ctrl: Enable+ ID=0 ArbSelect=Fixed TC/VC=ff
Status: NegoPending- InProgress-
Capabilities: [168 v1] Device Serial Number 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
Capabilities: [178 v1] Latency Tolerance Reporting
Max snoop latency: 3145728ns
Max no snoop latency: 3145728ns
Capabilities: [180 v1] L1 PM Substates
L1SubCap: PCI-PM_L1.2+ PCI-PM_L1.1+ ASPM_L1.2+ ASPM_L1.1+ L1_PM_Substates+
PortCommonModeRestoreTime=50us PortTPowerOnTime=10us
Kernel driver in use: ath10k_pci
Kernel modules: ath10k_pci
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Output of iw:
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kappanose / # iw dev wlp3s0 get power_save
Power save: on
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khayyam
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| Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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| kappanose wrote: | | Code: | | LnkCtl: ASPM L1 Enabled; |
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kappanose ... ok, so ASPM is enabled, and it looks like the current supplied is 375mA, which I would think would be about right.
best ... khay |
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kappanose
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| Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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| The thing is, I feel like I believe powertop getting vaguely correct values because when I turn off wifi altogether my estimated battery life more than doubles. After using my laptop for some time, the discharge rate suggests this too. Also, current isn't power |
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