Return-path: Received: from mail.atheros.com ([12.19.149.2]:47937 "EHLO mail.atheros.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756436Ab1BJOTQ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:19:16 -0500 Received: from mail.atheros.com ([10.10.20.108]) by sidewinder.atheros.com for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:18:55 -0800 Message-ID: <4D53F3DE.4030707@atheros.com> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:49:10 +0530 From: Mohammed Shafi MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Richard_Sch=FCtz?= CC: Mohammed Shajakhan , "linville@tuxdriver.com" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , Luis Rodriguez Subject: Re: [RFC] ath9k: Fix ath9k prevents CPU to enter C3 states References: <1297262007-15128-1-git-send-email-mshajakhan@atheros.com> <4D52C54A.2010709@t-online.de> In-Reply-To: <4D52C54A.2010709@t-online.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15"; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wednesday 09 February 2011 10:18 PM, Richard Sch?tz wrote: >> From: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan >> >> The DMA latency issue is observed only in Intel pinetrail platforms but >> in the driver we had a default PM-QOS value of 55. This caused >> unnecessary power consumption and battery drain in other platforms. >> Address this issue by disabling PM-QOS by default by setting it's value >> as '0' and making code changes appropriately.This addresses the bug: >> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27532 >> If the user sees some DMA latency issue he can still use the pmqos as a >> module parameter to trade power for throughput as below: >> sudo modprobe ath9k pmqos=55 >> >> Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan >> > Acked-By: Richard Sch?tz > Thanks, but we got to consider user space approach which Luis had mentioned. > Looks good to me with the exception of ATH9K_PM_QOS_DEFAULT_VALUE. But > John already mentioned that. > >