[ath9k-devel] periodic hang of ath9k

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 07/13/2014 12:18 PM, Dave Taht wrote:
> cc-ing ath9k-devel for this update on http://www.bufferbloat.net/issues/442
>
> this bug, which some people (usually on macs with low signal strength)
> can get to occur fairly rapidly, but I can't, is driving me 9 kinds of
> crazy...

I've mentioned this before..but I have a patch that works around this
problem:

I had merge issues, so now it's two patches until I have time to clean up
my tree:

http://dmz2.candelatech.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux-3.14.dev.y/.git;a=commit;h=579035d4b2b7110d67ff451e728709f5b2510ca0

http://dmz2.candelatech.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux-3.14.dev.y/.git;a=commit;h=ae6f95e8a35578e0668e47becb053b29009eec9a

I suspect this may cause memory leaks, as a test that causes these work-arounds to hit
often will run out of memory after a few days (200+ station vifs constantly doing traffic).
Could be lots of other code of course, and kmemleak shows no leaks, so I'm at a loss on
the mem leak issue.

If you can, try patching these in and see if that works around your tx hang problem.

I'd love to have a better fix, btw.

Thanks,
Ben


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