From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Add a new work-queue for destructing stations?
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:46:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50CA1470.4030107@candelatech.com> (raw)
As previously posted, there can be cases where the RTNL is held for a
very long time when trying to do the: flush_workqueue(local->workqueue);
in mac80211_do_stop because there are lots of 'slow' work-items queued up.
I'd like to work on making this faster...
My first idea is to add a second work-queue to the 'local' for high-priority
items that can be executed independently from the current local->workqueue,
and put the free_sta_rcu work() in that queue.
I'm guessing that to be safe, the do_stop() code would need to selectively
purge any work items in the local->workqueue that relate to the sdata
being destroyed, as well. I'm not sure how possible that would be...
Any comments on this, or suggestions for a better way to do this?
Thanks,
Ben
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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next reply other threads:[~2012-12-13 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-13 17:46 Ben Greear [this message]
2012-12-13 17:59 ` Add a new work-queue for destructing stations? Johannes Berg
2012-12-13 18:19 ` Ben Greear
2012-12-13 18:24 ` Johannes Berg
2012-12-13 18:27 ` Johannes Berg
2012-12-13 18:36 ` Johannes Berg
2012-12-13 18:30 ` Ben Greear
2012-12-13 18:37 ` Johannes Berg
2012-12-13 18:39 ` Ben Greear
2012-12-13 18:41 ` Johannes Berg
2012-12-13 18:47 ` Ben Greear
2012-12-13 18:49 ` Johannes Berg
2012-12-13 18:53 ` Johannes Berg
2012-12-13 19:00 ` Ben Greear
2012-12-13 19:11 ` Johannes Berg
2012-12-13 19:17 ` Ben Greear
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