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Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] rt2x00: do not print error when queue is full

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Hi Tom,

On Sat, Feb 09, 2019 at 01:28:32PM +0100, Tom Psyborg wrote:
> On 09/02/2019, Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 09, 2019 at 12:11:03PM +0100, Tom Psyborg wrote:
> >> Can you reproduce interface freeze with this patch if you enable debug
> >> options to print all dbg messages?
> >
> > Haven't tried that, but I expect enabling debug messages will
> > cause troubles at hardware where printk make CPU hog.
> >
> > Stanislaw
> >
> 
> Take a look at my comment from 23.01.2019. on this link:
> https://bugs.openwrt.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=2018
> There might be a chance dbg printks do not cause problems.

This is very likely just overheat because of missing TSSI. It happends
on boards where MT7620A is used without heatsink (and easy to
reproduce, I've tried. We just need TSSI and for bad board design it
will mean limiting to one TX-queue soon after serious traffic starts).
We should tell those users to glue heatsink on the chip for $0.05 they
can fix this in hardware -- and implement TSSI to mitigate at least the
very worst effects (such as hardware stuck until reset).
So dkg printks can make this worse, of course, because logging overhead
also burns CPU cycles and increases system load.

I remember in Rt5350 (and other predecessors of Rt6352 aka. MT7620)
also had problems like that and it was possible to improve it by all
sorts of things like removing power from unused ports of the Ethernet
switch -- so for those boards (like Xiaomi MiWiFi mini) even this maybe
the trick, because they also only use 3 out of 5 ports, and maybe we
need to try harder to disable the power of unused ports (and also those
without cable plugged in only periodicly power them up and check for
link)....

Cheers

Daniel



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