Return-path: Received: from mga03.intel.com ([143.182.124.21]:27186 "EHLO mga03.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751048AbYLFHZZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2008 02:25:25 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] iwlwifi: fix time interval misuse in iwl_poll_{direct_}bit From: reinette chatre To: Marcel Holtmann Cc: "linville@tuxdriver.com" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" , "Zhu, Yi" In-Reply-To: <1228502611.28839.35.camel@violet.holtmann.net> References: <> <1228492721-27381-1-git-send-email-reinette.chatre@intel.com> <1228492721-27381-2-git-send-email-reinette.chatre@intel.com> <1228492721-27381-3-git-send-email-reinette.chatre@intel.com> <1228492721-27381-4-git-send-email-reinette.chatre@intel.com> <1228502611.28839.35.camel@violet.holtmann.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:26:23 -0800 Message-Id: <1228548383.26014.43.camel@rc-desk> (sfid-20081206_082529_715001_D12ABFC4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 10:43 -0800, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Reinette, > > > The patch fixes the misuse of microsecond with millisecond in the > > polling mechanism of the iwlwifi driver. The impact of this problem > > is the unacceptable latency for the whole system (especially during > > bringing down the wlan interface). > > I will test the whole set of patches again, but as already mentioned > this is making the situation worse than better. > Please let us know the test results. These patches are necessary and the system latency issue has improved significantly for other users (please see feedback in http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1790 ). There may thus be other problems in your system that still needs to be addressed. Reinette