[RFT] ath10k: restart fw on tx-credit timeout

[Michal Kazior]

On 6 February 2015 at 17:15, Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> wrote:
> On 02/06/2015 04:05 AM, Michal Kazior wrote:
>>
>> It makes little sense to continue and let
>> firmware-host state become inconsistent if a WMI
>> command can't be submitted to firmware.
>>
>> This effectively prevents after-affects of
>> tx-credit starvation bug which include spurious
>> sta kickout events and inability to associate new
>> stations after some time when acting as AP.
>>
>> This should also speed up recovery/teardown in
>> some cases when firmware stops responding for some
>> reason.
>
>
> I have not seen a WMI timeout since I added keep-alive
> and CE polling in my firmware, but the patch looks OK
> to me.

This is mainly aimed at the tx-credit starvation due to mgmt-tx being
stuck on client powersave buffering.


> You might add something about 'WMI' in that warning
> message to make it more clear what is not being
> responsive.

Good point.


> At least in my tests, I could continue
> to receive network traffic while WMI was blocked.

Yeah. Traffic works with the tx-credit starvation as well but what
good is this if you have inconsistent driver-firmware state after
failing to send a few commands?


Michał