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

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On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:09 AM, Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> For both patches:
> Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>

+cc ath9k-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
+cc Ben Greear

Any other ack's or comments on these? These address some fairly
long-standing bugs.

Tim
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