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Message-ID: <20111122214438.GG8452@tuxdriver.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:44:39 -0500
From: "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pull request: wireless 2011-11-22
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 03:30:33PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 11/22/2011 03:13 PM, David Miller wrote:
> >From: David Miller<davem@...emloft.net>
> >Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:05:11 -0500 (EST)
> >Everyone can just return IRQ_HANDLED and everything would just work.
> >
> >But you know that's not the case, and that it's important that this value
> >is returned accurately.
>
> I was trying to find the thread that reported the improvement in
> performance with this change, but failed. Is it possible that their
> change just papered over an interrupt storm from some other device
> that shared that interrupt?
Original patch was posted here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=132143811916674&w=2
And the Red Hat Bugzilla entry is here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658451
> I'm following this because the rtlwifi-family of drivers already did
> what was suggested here. If this is wrong, then so is it.
Sounds like that nees to be fixed...
John
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