Hi On Monday 07 December 2009, Gertjan van Wingerde wrote: > On 12/05/09 00:32, Andi Kleen wrote: > > [Rafael, something for your regression list] > > > > I upgraded a system which was running 2.6.30 to 2.6.32. > > It has a > > > > 06:02.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI > > > > wireless PCI card. Now regularly even under moderate traffic > > I see messages like > > > > phy0 -> rt2x00queue_write_tx_frame: Error - Arrived at non-free entry in the non-full queue 2. > > Please file bug report to http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com. > > > > and loss of connectivity, often until the wireless connection > > is restarted. This wasn't the case in 2.6.30, there the driver > > ran stable without any problems. The problem currently > > happens every few minutes. I can reproduce the problem with 2.6.32 and rt61pci. rt73usb and rt2500usb seem to be fine. > Andi, Tim, > > Both of you have reported this problem on 2.6.32. > > In the past this always has occurred due to queue locking problems. This led me > to audit the queue locking code, and that certainly looked suspicious to me. > > Would you be able to test whether the attached test patch fixes the problem for > you. The patch basically applies proper queue locking to the code, although in > a very course manner. The patch is relative to 2.6.32. > > Note: I am not 100% sure that this is where the problem is, but at least the test > patch should confirm whether I am searching in the right direction. This patch doesn't seem to change this particular issue, disabling powersaving however makes rt62pci work again. Regards Stefan Lippers-Hollmann -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
