We currently have a collection of flags and locking between the threaded irq and tx work: - wl->flags bitops - wl->mutex - wl->wl_lock spinlock The bitops flags do not need a spinlock around them, and we only need the spinlock to see if we need to queue tx work or not. And wlcore_irq() holds the mutex. To simplify the locking, we can use spin_trylock and always queue tx work unless we know there's nothing to do. Let's also update the comment a bit while at it. Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/main.c | 17 +++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/main.c --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/main.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/main.c @@ -652,6 +652,7 @@ static irqreturn_t wlcore_irq(int irq, void *cookie) int ret; unsigned long flags; struct wl1271 *wl = cookie; + bool queue_tx_work = true; set_bit(WL1271_FLAG_IRQ_RUNNING, &wl->flags); @@ -684,13 +685,17 @@ static irqreturn_t wlcore_irq(int irq, void *cookie) if (ret) wl12xx_queue_recovery_work(wl); - spin_lock_irqsave(&wl->wl_lock, flags); - /* In case TX was not handled here, queue TX work */ + /* In case TX was not handled in wlcore_irq_locked(), queue TX work */ clear_bit(WL1271_FLAG_TX_PENDING, &wl->flags); - if (!test_bit(WL1271_FLAG_FW_TX_BUSY, &wl->flags) && - wl1271_tx_total_queue_count(wl) > 0) - ieee80211_queue_work(wl->hw, &wl->tx_work); - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&wl->wl_lock, flags); + if (!test_bit(WL1271_FLAG_FW_TX_BUSY, &wl->flags)) { + if (spin_trylock_irqsave(&wl->wl_lock, flags)) { + if (!wl1271_tx_total_queue_count(wl)) + queue_tx_work = false; + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&wl->wl_lock, flags); + } + if (queue_tx_work) + ieee80211_queue_work(wl->hw, &wl->tx_work); + } mutex_unlock(&wl->mutex); -- 2.27.0