Return-path: Received: from mail.atheros.com ([12.36.123.2]:39267 "EHLO mail.atheros.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751561AbYITU4O (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:56:14 -0400 Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:56:11 -0700 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: Steven Noonan CC: Luis Rodriguez , linux-wireless , LKML , Senthilkumar Balasubramanian , "ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org" , Ingo Molnar , "John W. Linville" Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2.6.27 (rc5, rc6, probably others) Message-ID: <20080920205611.GB8996@tesla> (sfid-20080920_225628_972708_6B5CEF2B) References: <20080919142801.GA5816@senthil-lnx.users.atheros.com> <20080919175824.GA5626@senthil-lnx.users.atheros.com> <20080919182322.GB7027@tesla> <20080919235305.GD11665@tesla> <43e72e890809191813n95579f5h83e92b0ba1f95a44@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 08:40:04PM -0700, Steven Noonan wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Steven Noonan wrote: > > Anyway, there definitely is an interrupt storm here. Let me demonstrate... > > Worth noting that this change (modified version of the patch by > Senthil from earlier) made it so it didn't give an 'IRQ 17: nobody > cared' when I reloaded ath9k during the IRQ storm... Thanks, for letting us know -- John, seems that IRQ patch by Senthil is 27 material as it fixes an IRQ issue (nobody cared complaint, and it disables the IRQ otherwise) upon rmmod during an IRQ storm. Luis