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Message-ID: <20080919182322.GB7027@tesla>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:23:22 -0700
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@...eros.com>
To: Senthilkumar Balasubramanian
<Senthilkumar.Balasubramanian@...eros.com>
CC: Steven Noonan <steven@...inklabs.net>,
Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@...eros.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
"ath9k-devel@...ts.ath9k.org" <ath9k-devel@...ts.ath9k.org>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2.6.27
(rc5, rc6, probably others)
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:58:24AM -0700, Senthilkumar Balasubramanian wrote:
>
> I am on 2.6.27-rc6 and this patch is on top of my earlier patch
> titled "[PATCH] ath9k: connectivity is lost after Group rekeying is
> done". However this patch can be applied on top of latest wireless testing
> too. I could apply this patch succesfully on top of wireless testing
> git tree.
>
> My git-describe says v2.6.27-rc6-1378-g34e512f.
>
> There is no sc_invalid flag in "struct ath_softc" today. Where did
> you get this variable from? It was removed in the following commit
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> commit f2c9705a05ecbc0d94216a3b042d5641e8bf70b1
> Author: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@...eros.com>
> Date: Mon Aug 11 14:05:08 2008 +0530
>
> ath9k: Use bitfields for sc operations
>
> Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@...eros.com>
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@...driver.com>
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> Which code base are you using?
Thanks for the patch Senthil. He is on Linus' v2.6.27-rc, you are on
wireless-testing so I've ported it (no changes, it just applies cleanly
now). This is also untested by me:
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.c
index f6c4528..9a432e5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.c
@@ -1336,6 +1336,8 @@ void ath_deinit(struct ath_softc *sc)
DPRINTF(sc, ATH_DBG_CONFIG, "%s\n", __func__);
+ tasklet_kill(&sc->intr_tq);
+ tasklet_kill(&sc->bcon_tasklet);
ath_stop(sc);
if (!sc->sc_invalid)
ath9k_hw_setpower(sc->sc_ah, ATH9K_PM_AWAKE);
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/main.c
index c5107f2..75acf54 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/main.c
@@ -1400,10 +1400,16 @@ static void ath_pci_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev)
{
struct ieee80211_hw *hw = pci_get_drvdata(pdev);
struct ath_softc *sc = hw->priv;
+ enum ath9k_int status;
- if (pdev->irq)
+ if (pdev->irq) {
+ ath9k_hw_set_interrupts(sc->sc_ah, 0);
+ ath9k_hw_getisr(sc->sc_ah, &status); /* NB: clears ISR too */
+ sc->sc_flags |= SC_OP_INVALID;
free_irq(pdev->irq, sc);
+ }
ath_detach(sc);
+
pci_iounmap(pdev, sc->mem);
pci_release_region(pdev, 0);
pci_disable_device(pdev);
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