Return-path: Received: from mail-yw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:41130 "EHLO mail-yw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932242Ab2FGVVP (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2012 17:21:15 -0400 Received: by yhmm54 with SMTP id m54so805724yhm.19 for ; Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:21:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FD11B47.10002@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20120607_232118_870880_7E9FA51D) Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:21:11 -0500 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johannes Berg CC: =?UTF-8?B?TWljaGFlbCBCw7xzY2g=?= , Andre Heider , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, b43-dev@lists.infradead.org, =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= Subject: Re: chip id 4318 regression: WARN_ON_ONCE(sdata->vif.hw_queue[i] >= n_queues)) References: <1339014959.4523.0.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> <1339053364.4517.0.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> <20120607180325.7752b3c0@milhouse> <1339094215.4630.7.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20120607_203710_507564_555516DC) <1339102567.4630.8.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> In-Reply-To: <1339102567.4630.8.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 06/07/2012 03:56 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 20:36 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > >> However, it's also possible to actually *use* the new mac80211 feature. >> That would also help with IEEE80211_TX_CTL_SEND_AFTER_DTIM, you could >> ask mac80211 to use a separate HW queue for it (for tx_ring_mcast.) This >> may be quicker. > > This might do it, I haven't tested it at all: > > http://p.sipsolutions.net/3c6b003bb06e5298.txt With that patch, the driver never loads the firmware. I have not yet found the reason. Larry