Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2.6.27 (rc5, rc6, probably others)

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From: Steven Noonan
Date: Friday, September 19, 2008 - 5:01 pm

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
<lrodriguez@atheros.com> wrote:

It's a weird problem, because I'm able to reproduce it by running a
kernel with ath9k loaded for a few hours. In this particular case, I
only ran this kernel for about 3.5 hours , but the delay when VT
switching was getting noticeable. Unload/reload of ath9k and the
latency disappeared again. It's definitely ath9k's doing, but I don't
know how. I'm finding the delay is most noticeable after 7 hours
uptime with ath9k loaded.

I'll pull wireless-testing and run that kernel for another 8 hours.
What's the URL for the repo? Surely you don't mean the
wireless-testing on git.kernel.org that hasn't been touched for almost
a week?

I kind of wish there was a better debugging facility in ath9k. With
ATH_DBG_INTERRUPTS, I see several hundred messages per second, which
fills log files up like crazy (I switched to ftrace_printk as Ingo
suggested, which has alleviated this somewhat). Is there a way to make
it less verbose (perhaps so that it prints data at a rate of no more
than 2 or 3 messages per second)? Or maybe the rate at which it prints
this stuff is indicative something's wrong?

- Steven
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Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2. ..., Luis R. Rodriguez, (Thu Sep 18, 11:34 am)
Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2. ..., Luis R. Rodriguez, (Thu Sep 18, 11:42 am)
Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2. ..., Luis R. Rodriguez, (Thu Sep 18, 1:44 pm)
Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2. ..., Luis R. Rodriguez, (Thu Sep 18, 3:01 pm)
Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2. ..., Luis R. Rodriguez, (Thu Sep 18, 3:08 pm)
Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2. ..., Luis R. Rodriguez, (Thu Sep 18, 4:10 pm)
Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2. ..., Luis R. Rodriguez, (Thu Sep 18, 4:12 pm)
Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2. ..., Luis R. Rodriguez, (Thu Sep 18, 8:01 pm)
Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2. ..., Senthil Balasubramanian, (Fri Sep 19, 7:28 am)
Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2. ..., Senthil Balasubramanian, (Fri Sep 19, 10:58 am)
Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2. ..., Luis R. Rodriguez, (Fri Sep 19, 11:23 am)
Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2. ..., Luis R. Rodriguez, (Fri Sep 19, 4:53 pm)
Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2. ..., Steven Noonan, (Fri Sep 19, 5:01 pm)
Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2. ..., Luis R. Rodriguez, (Fri Sep 19, 6:13 pm)
Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2. ..., Luis R. Rodriguez, (Fri Sep 19, 6:15 pm)
Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2. ..., Luis R. Rodriguez, (Sat Sep 20, 1:56 pm)
Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2. ..., Luis R. Rodriguez, (Sat Sep 20, 1:57 pm)
Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2. ..., Luis R. Rodriguez, (Sat Sep 20, 2:03 pm)
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