Ajay,

On Fri, 2021-12-24 at 16:20 +0000, Ajay.Kathat@microchip.com wrote:

On 23/12/21 22:38, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:

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First, on a freshly booted system and with wilc1000-spi autoloaded by
the kernel, try this sequence (copy & paste the commands):

    /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -Bs -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
    sleep 10
    iw dev wlan0 set power_save on

The above yields a power consumption of 1.4W reliably.  The "sleep 10"
doesn't matter here; the behavior is the same with or without it.  I
tried waiting up to 120 seconds with no difference.

I have tested by making the WILC as build-in module to insert driver 
automatically at boot-up. I hope it should be fine. Because I have 
already tested as loadable module earlier.

Below are the number observed
------------------------------ --------------------------
- before starting wpa_supplicant             : ~16.3 mA
- wpa_supplicant started                         : ~40 mA
- PSM on                                                  :  ~6 mA


The 'sleep 10' would have no impact in my setup because I have measured 
the current consumption for wilc1000 chip.

I have shared the screenshot at https://postimg.cc/67S41dkb

Huh, that's curious.  I definitely cannot reproduce this.  To match
your setup as closely as possibly, I also built wilc1000-spi into the
kernel, but that makes no difference (as expected).

What kernel version are you on?  I switched to wireless-drivers-next as
of today (latest commit d430dffbe9dd30759f3c64b65bf85b0245c8d8ab).

With this kernel, the numbers are about 100mW lower than reported
before, but the relative behavior is the same: about 300mW higher
power-consumption when PSM is not taking effect properly.

To recap, back with wilc1000-spi being a module again, after freshly
booting the system and issuing this commands:

   /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -Bs -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
   /usr/sbin/iw dev wlan0 set power_save on

I see a power-consumption of about 1.25W.  PSM on/off makes no
difference in this state.  Then, if I issue the commands:

rmmod wilc1000-spi
modprobe wilc1000-spi
sleep 10
iw dev wlan0 set power_save on

power-consumption drops to about 0.9W.

Here is a screenshot that shows the annotated power-measurements:

   https://postimg.cc/3dbKSGht

Apart from kernel version, the only things that I can think of that'd
be different is that we don't have the ENABLE pin wired to a GPIO.
 Instead, the chip is always enabled.  I doubt this would explain the
difference (~RESET is wired to a GPIO).


  --david