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

Justin Mattock
2008-09-18T20:18:53Z

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez
>> <lrodriguez@atheros.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez
>>>> irqpoll is a monster of evil and that should make your system crawl to
>>>> its knees. I would advise instead we work with you fixing the the
>>>> missed interrupts issue upon rmmod.
>>>
>>> Also, please provide the output of
>>>
>>> cat /proc/interrupts
>>
>> Note that the problem necessitating use of irqpoll in the first place
>> seems to only happen under certain conditions. I am unsure what these
>> conditions are. Before 'ath9k: connectivity is lost after Group
>> rekeying is done', I had used rmmod/modprobe as my solution to the
>> issue, which triggered the IRQ issue.
>
> I wonder if this is related:
>
> alcarin ~ # dmesg | grep GPE
> [ 0.166806] ACPI: EC: GPE = 0x17, I/O: command/status = 0x66, data = 0x62
> [ 685.409077] ACPI: EC: GPE storm detected, disabling EC GPE
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FWIW, you might want to try this pach
in this thread:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/966076
I was receiving a disable irq #23 this patch"knock on wood",
seems to help with this issue.

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Justin P. Mattock