[RFC] ath10k: replenish HTT RX buffers in a tasklet

Kalle Valo kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com
Tue Sep 24 02:22:29 EDT 2013


Michal Kazior <michal.kazior at tieto.com> writes:

> This fixes system starvation when under heavy RX
> traffic. This problem could be observed on AP135
> and led to watchdog resetting the platform.
>
> Patch starves FW RX ring buffer by progressively
> replenishing buffers to auto-balance the RX
> handled to the host system.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior at tieto.com>

Looks good to me. I suspect there is a better way to do this in long
term, but this looks like a viable short term solution.

Does it decrease throughput in a noticeable way?

-- 
Kalle Valo



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