Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:44:39 -0500 | From | "John W. Linville" <> | Subject | Re: pull request: wireless 2011-11-22 |
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On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 03:30:33PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote: > On 11/22/2011 03:13 PM, David Miller wrote: > >From: David Miller<davem@davemloft.net> > >Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:05:11 -0500 (EST)
> >Everyone can just return IRQ_HANDLED and everything would just work. > > > >But you know that's not the case, and that it's important that this value > >is returned accurately. > > I was trying to find the thread that reported the improvement in > performance with this change, but failed. Is it possible that their > change just papered over an interrupt storm from some other device > that shared that interrupt?
Original patch was posted here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=132143811916674&w=2
And the Red Hat Bugzilla entry is here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658451
> I'm following this because the rtlwifi-family of drivers already did > what was suggested here. If this is wrong, then so is it.
Sounds like that nees to be fixed...
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