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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>,
	ath10k <ath10k@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Hard lockup during vif restart tests.
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 09:06:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <541B0311.3060508@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vbols7tg.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com>

On 09/18/2014 12:31 AM, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com> writes:
> 
>>> Why do we reset the firmware/NIC when we admin down/up the
>>> vif (when a single vif is active)?  Couldn't we just keep
>>> the firmware active in this state and not risk lockup due
>>> to reset?
>>
>> If you put down last interface mac80211 calls drv_stop(). There isn't
>> any real need to keep the device up and running after that other than
>> trying to workaround the reset issue. But then you need to deal with
>> firmware quirks. I recall it could report Rx indications after all
>> vdevs had been removed (and this is now also observable with 10.2
>> during probing/bootup). It's just simpler to reboot firmware on
>> drv_stop/start().
> 
> And there's the reliability issue. Being able to reset the firmware with
> interface down/up sequency is pretty useful and AFAIK almost all
> upstream drivers do that. And let's not forget power consumption either.

The fact that restarting firmware can hang the machine or require
reboot to recover is so serious that I think a work-around is
worth looking into.

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


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      reply	other threads:[~2014-09-18 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-16 18:42 Hard lockup during vif restart tests Ben Greear
2014-09-17  6:34 ` Michal Kazior
2014-09-17 15:52   ` Ben Greear
2014-09-18  6:23     ` Michal Kazior
2014-09-18  7:31       ` Kalle Valo
2014-09-18 16:06         ` Ben Greear [this message]

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