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Re: [PATCH] ath9k: break out of irq handler after 5 jiffies

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On Wed, 2018-02-07 at 10:16 +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> On 2018-02-07 00:05, greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > In case where the system is sluggish, we should probably break out
> > early.  Maybe this will fix issues where the OS thinks the IRQ handler
> > is not responding and disables the IRQ because 'nobody cared'
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 5 jiffies as a hardcoded value is a bad idea, since it produces
> different behavior based on CONFIG_HZ.

Also, err, NAPI? Or is something else is going on here?

johannes



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