On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 18:26 +0200, Maximilian Engelhardt wrote: > > Is there any other strange behavior of the high res enabled kernel than > > the b44 problem ? > > I didn't notice anything in the past (as I wrote). But today I did some tests > for an updated version of the p54 mac80211 wlan driver and I noticed exactly > the same problem: > > when booting with highres=off everything is fine. > But when I boot an highres enabled kernel and I do the iperf-test with the p54 > driver, my systems becomes unresponsive during the test. It seems to be > exactly the same problem I have with the b44 driver. > So this might not be a bug in the b44 code but a bug somewhere in the linux > networking code. > > I did the test with an 2.6.22-rc3-git4 kernel and the p54 driver built > external as module. Can you look at iperf to figure out, whether it does some weird timer stuff (high frequency interval timer or such) ? Either check the code or strace it. tglx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
