From: Ben Gamari <bgamari@gmail.com>
To: "Björn Smedman" <bjorn.smedman@venatech.se>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org
Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: race conditions in dma
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 11:43:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8762whrqvm.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik=LvRZja13SGOpicVjbyf6chRtTD-RkvSm2VcE@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 16:17:23 +0100, Björn Smedman <bjorn.smedman@venatech.se> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have an application that creates and destroys a lot of ap vifs and
> does a lot of monitor frame injection. The recent ath9k rx locking
> fixes have helped with stability in this use-case but there still
> seems to be some tx/beacon related race condition(s). These manifests
> themselves as follows on an AR913x based router running
> compat-wireless-2010-10-19 (with locking fixes etc from openwrt):
>
> 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. Quite annoying. It seems to be better
with recent wireless-testing trees.
- Ben
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-01 15:43 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 ` Ben Gamari [this message]
2010-11-01 15:50 ` [ath9k-devel] " Björn Smedman
2010-11-01 23:12 ` Peter Stuge
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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