Return-path: Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com ([209.85.214.53]:41746 "EHLO mail-bk0-f53.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754860Ab3HMKWx convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Aug 2013 06:22:53 -0400 Received: by mail-bk0-f53.google.com with SMTP id d7so2554524bkh.12 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 03:22:52 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1376373578-2180-3-git-send-email-michal.kazior@tieto.com> References: <1375949813-10969-1-git-send-email-michal.kazior@tieto.com> <1376373578-2180-1-git-send-email-michal.kazior@tieto.com> <1376373578-2180-3-git-send-email-michal.kazior@tieto.com> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 12:22:51 +0200 Message-ID: (sfid-20130813_122256_863331_9141B4F1) Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] ath10k: fix HTC endpoint worker starvation From: Michal Kazior To: ath10k@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Michal Kazior Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 13 August 2013 07:59, Michal Kazior wrote: > HTC used a worker for each endpoint. This worked > until a slow host machine was flooded with massive > number of TX requests. HTT related worker would > remain active while WMI worker was starved. This > ended up with "could not send beacon" in AP mode. > It was even possible to see userspace being > starved. > > The patch switches from using workers to using > tasklets for processing and submitting HTC frames > to HIF. > > Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior I'd like drop this patch, at least for now. I'm having doubts this is the right way to solve the problem. Pozdrawiam / Best regards, Michał Kazior.