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From: Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se>
To: "Björn Smedman" <bjorn.smedman@venatech.se>
Cc: Ben Gamari <bgamari@gmail.com>,
	ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: race conditions in dma
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 00:12:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101101231220.8591.qmail@stuge.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTins=0vM=+qpdDB2-KvMBq6J5vwUjn6Ni76GyQst@mail.gmail.com>

Björn Smedman wrote:
> >> 1. TX DMA hangs under simultaneous high RX and TX load
> >> 2. TX is completely hung but chip is never reset
> >
> > I have also observed both of these behaviors with just a standard
> > hostapd single VIF configuration.
> 
> Thanx Ben, it's a relief to know I'm not the only one suffering
> from this.

Just a note to confirm that I have also seen many different failures
related to this. The lasting impression is that it's a big mess.

I bought my first ath9k hardware roughly a year ago. That was totally
useless as STA up until kernels a few months ago. I am now using an
AR9280 card and for the very first time ath9k hardware and driver is
actually working at all for me, but there are still issues as I noted
in the other email.

Unfortunately they're the kind of issues which can't be debugged much
lacking strong knowledge of device internals.


//Peter

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-01 23:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-01 15:17 ath9k: race conditions in dma Björn Smedman
2010-11-01 15:43 ` [ath9k-devel] " Ben Gamari
2010-11-01 15:50   ` Björn Smedman
2010-11-01 23:12     ` Peter Stuge [this message]
2010-11-01 16:20   ` Björn Smedman
2010-11-01 16:39   ` Björn Smedman
2010-11-01 16:44     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-11-01 16:52       ` Felix Fietkau
2010-11-01 17:12         ` Björn Smedman
2010-11-02 16:55   ` Björn Smedman
2010-11-03 16:41     ` Björn Smedman
2010-11-03 17:47     ` Ben Gamari

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