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Re: [PATCH 2/2] brcmsmac: rework of mac80211 .flush() callback operation

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On 09/05/2012 09:57 AM, Seth Forshee wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 11:49:22AM +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>> This patch addresses a long standing issue of the driver with the
>> mac80211 .flush() callback. Since implementing the .flush() callback
>> a number of issues have been fixed, but a WARN_ON_ONCE() was still
>> triggered because the flush takes too much time. The flush now
>> makes use of a waitqueue and still has a timeout on which a warning
>> is given.
> 
> Brad Figg and I have been testing this patch with a 3.5 kernel. With the
> patch we're both still seeing the warning from brcms_ops_flush(), and
> Brad has also seen the "No where to go" message in
> brcms_c_prec_enq_head(). But the connection continues to work when this
> happens, whereas previously we had to reconnect, so this is definitely
> an improvement.
> 
> Seth
> 

Arend,

Though the driver is definitely better, it is still struggling quite a
bit as can be seen in the iperf output found at:
    http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/1187578/

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