Re: [PATCH 2/2] ath9k: add a recv budget

[Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>]

On 2014-04-29 14:04, Tim Harvey wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:09 AM, Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> wrote:
>> On 2014-04-22 01:14, Tim Harvey wrote:
>>> Implement a recv budget so that in cases of high traffic we still allow other
>>> taskets to get processed.
>>>
>>> Without this, we can encounter a host of issues during high wireless traffic
>>> reception depending on system load including rcu stall's detected (ARM),
>>> soft lockups, failure to service critical tasks such as watchdog resets,
>>> and triggering of the tx stuck tasklet.
>>>
>>> The same thing was proposed previously by Ben:
>>>  http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg112891.html
>>>
>>> The only difference here is that I make sure only processed packets are counted
>>> in the budget by checking at the end of the rx loop.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Tim Harvey <tharvey@gateworks.com>
>> For both patches:
>> Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
>>
> 
> +cc ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org
> +cc Ben Greear
> 
> Any other ack's or comments on these? These address some fairly
> long-standing bugs.
No need for further ack's or comments, since the change has been picked
up by John already.

- Felix