Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2.6.27 (rc5, rc6, probably others)

Steven Noonan
2008-09-18T23:09:19Z

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
<lrodriguez@atheros.com> wrote:
>> If I do, I'll need to know what precisely to do about it. What debug
>> info should I collect before rebooting?
>
> Sure, OK so in ath9k's core.h we have a macro used to indicate what
> type of debugging stuff gets print out. By default we only leave
> enabled the fatal stuff.
>
> #define DBG_DEFAULT (ATH_DBG_FATAL )
>
> You want to add to this ATH_DBG_INTERRUPT as follows:
>
> #define DBG_DEFAULT (ATH_DBG_FATAL | ATH_DBG_INTERRUPT)
>
> Then since the issue seems to come up when you rmmod, simply try to
> download do some large RXing or TXing or both and then rmmod. Capture
> the output and send along.

Will do! And actually, to be precise, the issue occurred not on the
rmmod, but on the following modprobe for ath9k.

>> Which is far more important, I agree. It's annoying to get speeds
>> <802.11b on my pre-802.11n capable chipset and network. ;)
>
> Yeah exactly, I hope the work we do will get in for 27. We'll see.

Linus has been fairly strict lately, so I am as uncertain as you are.
It really should get merged, because having 2.6.27 with [partially]
broken wireless networking is kind of stupid. In the worst case, isn't
it possible to do a revert to get the old aggregation crap back in?