AQL and the ath10k is *lovely*

[ka2107]

@nbd

regarding ATF and AQL: AQL is essential for making ATF work well. If AQL significantly reduces throughput, then that's an important issue which needs to be fixed. Please let me know how well the current version with my patches works for you with AQL and ATF enabled.

Hi Felix @nbd, thank you for your work in fixing AQL and also maintaining mt76 driver. I know this thread is mainly about ath10k, but some people are reporting connectivity issues on mt76 driver that are supposedly fixed by disabling AQL as mentioned at Belkin RT3200/Linksys E8450 WiFi AX discussion - #2359 by jj86 .

Does mt76 use AQL and does it directly do ATF like ath9k? Does the Virtual TIme-Based AQL (that is yet to be reverted in OpenWrt 22.03) affect mt76 like it affects ath10k?

I am using a Belkin RT3200 (mt7622, mt7915) with 5GHz 802.11ax AP mode and sometimes I have an issue with my Google Pixel 6 phone that occurs randomly (and nothing related in openwrt system log), wherein wifi remains connected but no data loads in any browser or app. Toggling wifi off/on on the phone bring back connectivity. Not sure if that is related to AQL.