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RE: [EXT] Re: [2/2] mwifiex: use more_rx_task_flag to avoid USB RX stall

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Hi Brian,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Norris [mailto:briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 3:38 AM
> To: Ganapathi Bhat
> Cc: Kalle Valo; linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Cathy Luo; Xinming Hu;
> Zhiyuan Yang; James Cao; Mangesh Malusare; Shrenik Shikhare
> Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [2/2] mwifiex: use more_rx_task_flag to avoid USB RX
> stall
>
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 11:19 PM, Ganapathi Bhat <gbhat@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >> From: Ganapathi Bhat
> >> > From: Brian Norris [mailto:briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Thu, Jan
> >> > 25, 2018 at 09:59:04AM +0000, Ganapathi Bhat wrote:
> >> > > > I can't find any commit with id c7dbdcb2a4e1, is it correct?
> >> > > Correct. Actually the commit id c7dbdcb2a4e1 is the PATCH [1/2]
> >> > > sent in this
> >> > series.
> >> >
> >> > What? Why would you introduce a bug and only fix it in the next patch?
> >> With the first patch the original issue took considerably longer time
> >> to recreate. Also it followed a different path to get
> >> recreated(shared in commit message).
> >> > Does that mean you should just combine the two?
> >> Let us know if that is fine to merge them. We can modify the commit
> >> message accordingly.
> >> > Or reverse the order, if patch 2 doesn't cause problems on its own?
> >> Patch 2 has a dependency on patch 1.
> > One correction. There is no commit dependency between patch 1 and
> 2(they can be applied in any order). But the result would be same. We need
> both fixes. Let us know if we can combine them.
>
> I haven't closely looked at patch 2 yet. My only statement was that it makes
> no sense to have 2 commits, with the second one labeled as "Fixing" the first
> one. From your descriptions, it sounds like patch 2 should actually come first,
Ok. I understand. I will reorder them and send v3(along with spinlock change).
> but I'm not really sure. I only looked far enough to say that I didn't like patch
> 1 as-is :)
>
> Brian
Regards,
Ganapathi




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