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Re: [RFC] ath9k: Fix ath9k prevents CPU to enter C3 states

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On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 06:19:10AM -0800, Mohammed Shajakhan wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 February 2011 10:18 PM, Richard Schütz wrote:
> >> From: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan<mshajakhan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> The DMA latency issue is observed only in Intel pinetrail platforms but
> >> in the driver we had a default PM-QOS value of 55. This caused
> >> unnecessary power consumption and battery drain in other platforms.
> >> Address this issue by disabling PM-QOS by default by setting it's value
> >> as '0' and making code changes appropriately.This addresses the bug:
> >> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27532
> >> 	If the user sees some DMA latency issue he can still use the pmqos as a
> >> module parameter to trade power for throughput as below:
> >> sudo modprobe ath9k pmqos=55
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan<mshajakhan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>      
> > Acked-By: Richard Schütz<r.schtz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >    
> Thanks, but we got to consider user space approach which Luis had mentioned.

Richard, can you test the userspace app as a replacement? Or did your board not
exerpience the issue?

  Luis
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