[PATCH v2 2/4] ath10k: fix HTC endpoint worker starvation

Michal Kazior michal.kazior at tieto.com
Tue Aug 13 06:22:51 EDT 2013


On 13 August 2013 07:59, Michal Kazior <michal.kazior at tieto.com> wrote:
> HTC used a worker for each endpoint. This worked
> until a slow host machine was flooded with massive
> number of TX requests. HTT related worker would
> remain active while WMI worker was starved. This
> ended up with "could not send beacon" in AP mode.
> It was even possible to see userspace being
> starved.
>
> The patch switches from using workers to using
> tasklets for processing and submitting HTC frames
> to HIF.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior at tieto.com>

I'd like drop this patch, at least for now. I'm having doubts this is
the right way to solve the problem.


Pozdrawiam / Best regards,
Michał Kazior.



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