From: reinette chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
To: Marcel Holtmann <holtmann@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "linville@tuxdriver.com" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net"
<ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
"Zhu, Yi" <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] iwlwifi: fix time interval misuse in iwl_poll_{direct_}bit
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:26:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1228548383.26014.43.camel@rc-desk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1228502611.28839.35.camel@violet.holtmann.net>
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 10:43 -0800, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Reinette,
>
> > The patch fixes the misuse of microsecond with millisecond in the
> > polling mechanism of the iwlwifi driver. The impact of this problem
> > is the unacceptable latency for the whole system (especially during
> > bringing down the wlan interface).
>
> I will test the whole set of patches again, but as already mentioned
> this is making the situation worse than better.
>
Please let us know the test results. These patches are necessary and the
system latency issue has improved significantly for other users (please
see feedback in
http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1790 ). There
may thus be other problems in your system that still needs to be
addressed.
Reinette
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-06 7:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-05 15:58 [PATCH 0/6] iwlwifi driver updates Reinette Chatre
2008-12-05 15:58 ` [PATCH 1/6] iwlwifi: implement iwl_debug_report_frame for iwlagn Reinette Chatre
2008-12-05 15:58 ` [PATCH 2/6] iwl3945: Fix rate scale for B-mode connection Reinette Chatre
2008-12-05 15:58 ` [PATCH 3/6] iwlwifi: fix time interval misuse in iwl_poll_{direct_}bit Reinette Chatre
2008-12-05 15:58 ` [PATCH 4/6] iwlwifi: fix "MAC in deep sleep" error Reinette Chatre
2008-12-05 15:58 ` [PATCH 5/6] iwlwifi: iwl_poll_{direct_}bit cleanup Reinette Chatre
2008-12-05 15:58 ` [PATCH 6/6] iwlwifi: use rmb/wmb to protect indirect mmio operation Reinette Chatre
2008-12-05 18:43 ` [PATCH 3/6] iwlwifi: fix time interval misuse in iwl_poll_{direct_}bit Marcel Holtmann
2008-12-06 7:26 ` reinette chatre [this message]
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