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From: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
To: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] wl12xx: set the ELP entry delay to the FW dyn-ps timeout
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:05:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1330430758.18637.42.camel@cumari> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1330382494-31148-1-git-send-email-arik@wizery.com>

On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 00:41 +0200, Arik Nemtsov wrote: 
> With PSM handled in FW, the checks in wl1271_elp_work() are always true.
> Thus during active traffic we constantly enter and exit ELP (many times
> per second). As each ELP exit takes ~10ms, this can have an adverse
> effect on throughput and interactivity.
> Set the ELP timeout to the dyn-ps timeout. This period is longer and
> avoids the above problem. It also makes sense to stay out of ELP while
> we are awake on the network, to minimize delays in Tx/Rx. The same thing
> was done by the mac80211 dynamic-ps mechanism before the FW DPS changes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
> ---

Applied this whole series with the change from WARN_ON to WARN_ON_ONCE
on patch 3/7 and pushed.

Thanks, Arik!

-- 
Cheers,
Luca.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-28 12:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-27 22:41 [PATCH 1/7] wl12xx: set the ELP entry delay to the FW dyn-ps timeout Arik Nemtsov
2012-02-27 22:41 ` [PATCH 2/7] wl12xx: change bits in the link_map under spin lock Arik Nemtsov
2012-02-27 22:41 ` [PATCH 3/7] wl12xx: reset link Tx queues when freeing it Arik Nemtsov
2012-02-28  9:51   ` Luciano Coelho
2012-02-28 10:09     ` Arik Nemtsov
2012-02-29  8:31     ` Kalle Valo
2012-02-29  8:39       ` Luciano Coelho
2012-02-27 22:41 ` [PATCH 4/7] wl12xx: avoid starving the system hlid Arik Nemtsov
2012-02-27 22:41 ` [PATCH 5/7] wl12xx: flush all Tx queues on tx_flush timeout Arik Nemtsov
2012-02-27 22:41 ` [PATCH 6/7] wl12xx: flush Tx during suspend and 802.11h chan switch Arik Nemtsov
2012-02-27 22:41 ` [PATCH 7/7] wl12xx: increase dynamic PS timeout to 200ms Arik Nemtsov
2012-02-28 12:05 ` Luciano Coelho [this message]

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