From: Howard Chu <hyc@highlandsun.com>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: ath9k ath_ani_calibrate
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:56:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A7BA5E6.7050808@highlandsun.com> (raw)
I was seeing this function showing up consistently while running powertop. It
seems that ANI is always enabled by default, and I didn't see any ioctl or
config option to disable it. It sets a timer to wakeup every 100ms and do
whatever calibration it's trying to do. I changed the ANI_POLLINTERVAL to
1000ms and recompiled, and haven't noticed any ill effect yet. Is there any
reason why this calibration needs to happen 10 times a second? Will it still
be useful if it were toned down, to 250ms, or 500ms? (Note - because the
driver takes the minimum of the active calibration intervals, and
ANI_POLLINTERVAL is the smallest, it is always the one that wins...)
With this changed to 1sec, I still see the ath9k driver waking up 10-12
times/second but I presume that's in response to random packets from the AP.
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