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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
To: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath10k@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ath10k: speed up hw recovery
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 11:15:41 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877g049yhe.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1412847527-25983-4-git-send-email-michal.kazior@tieto.com> (Michal Kazior's message of "Thu, 9 Oct 2014 11:38:47 +0200")

Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com> writes:

> In some cases hw recovery was taking an absurdly
> long time due to ath10k waiting for things that
> would never really complete.
>
> Instead of waiting for inevitable timeouts poke
> all completions and wakequeues and check if it's
> still worth waiting.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>

[...]

> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c
> @@ -685,6 +685,20 @@ static void ath10k_core_restart(struct work_struct *work)
>  {
>  	struct ath10k *ar = container_of(work, struct ath10k, restart_work);
>  
> +	set_bit(ATH10K_FLAG_CRASH_FLUSH, &ar->dev_flags);
> +	barrier();

Please document why the barrier is needed.

> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.h
> @@ -371,6 +371,11 @@ enum ath10k_dev_flags {
>  	/* Indicates that ath10k device is during CAC phase of DFS */
>  	ATH10K_CAC_RUNNING,
>  	ATH10K_FLAG_CORE_REGISTERED,
> +
> +	/* Device has crashed and needs to restart. This indicates any pending
> +	 * waiters should immediately cancel instead of waiting for a time out.
> +	 */
> +	ATH10K_FLAG_CRASH_FLUSH,
>  };

Instead of a dev flag, should this actually be a new state to enum
ath10k_state? The reason I ask, I don't see how we would use this flag
with other states than with ATH10K_STATE_ON. Or is this needed because
of locking?

-- 
Kalle Valo

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-13  8:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-09  9:38 [PATCH 0/3] ath10k: speed up recovery Michal Kazior
2014-10-09  9:38 ` [PATCH 1/3] ath10k: fix possible bmi crash Michal Kazior
2014-10-09  9:38 ` [PATCH 2/3] ath10k: expose hw restart via debugfs Michal Kazior
2014-10-13  8:07   ` Kalle Valo
2014-10-13  8:45     ` Michal Kazior
2014-10-09  9:38 ` [PATCH 3/3] ath10k: speed up hw recovery Michal Kazior
2014-10-10  6:56   ` Michal Kazior
2014-10-13  8:15   ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2014-10-13  8:29     ` Michal Kazior
2014-10-13  8:44       ` Kalle Valo

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