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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.4 37/39] rt2800usb: slow down TX status polling
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 16:57:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131127005621.650741055@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131127005619.011763867@linuxfoundation.org>

3.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>

commit 36165fd5b00bf8163f89c21bb16a3e9834555b10 upstream.

Polling TX statuses too frequently has two negative effects. First is
randomly peek CPU usage, causing overall system functioning delays.
Second bad effect is that device is not able to fill TX statuses in
H/W register on some workloads and we get lot of timeouts like below:

ieee80211 phy4: rt2800usb_entry_txstatus_timeout: Warning - TX status timeout for entry 7 in queue 2
ieee80211 phy4: rt2800usb_entry_txstatus_timeout: Warning - TX status timeout for entry 7 in queue 2
ieee80211 phy4: rt2800usb_txdone: Warning - Got TX status for an empty queue 2, dropping

This not only cause flood of messages in dmesg, but also bad throughput,
since rate scaling algorithm can not work optimally.

In the future, we should probably make polling interval be adjusted
automatically, but for now just increase values, this make mentioned
problems gone.

Resolve:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62781

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.c |   12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.c
@@ -143,6 +143,8 @@ static bool rt2800usb_txstatus_timeout(s
 	return false;
 }
 
+#define TXSTATUS_READ_INTERVAL 1000000
+
 static bool rt2800usb_tx_sta_fifo_read_completed(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev,
 						 int urb_status, u32 tx_status)
 {
@@ -170,8 +172,9 @@ static bool rt2800usb_tx_sta_fifo_read_c
 		queue_work(rt2x00dev->workqueue, &rt2x00dev->txdone_work);
 
 	if (rt2800usb_txstatus_pending(rt2x00dev)) {
-		/* Read register after 250 us */
-		hrtimer_start(&rt2x00dev->txstatus_timer, ktime_set(0, 250000),
+		/* Read register after 1 ms */
+		hrtimer_start(&rt2x00dev->txstatus_timer,
+			      ktime_set(0, TXSTATUS_READ_INTERVAL),
 			      HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
 		return false;
 	}
@@ -196,8 +199,9 @@ static void rt2800usb_async_read_tx_stat
 	if (test_and_set_bit(TX_STATUS_READING, &rt2x00dev->flags))
 		return;
 
-	/* Read TX_STA_FIFO register after 500 us */
-	hrtimer_start(&rt2x00dev->txstatus_timer, ktime_set(0, 500000),
+	/* Read TX_STA_FIFO register after 2 ms */
+	hrtimer_start(&rt2x00dev->txstatus_timer,
+		      ktime_set(0, 2*TXSTATUS_READ_INTERVAL),
 		      HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
 }
 



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-27  2:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-27  0:56 [PATCH 3.4 00/39] 3.4.71-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 01/39] vfs,proc: guarantee unique inodes in /proc Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 02/39] nfs: dont allow nfs_find_actor to match inodes of the wrong type Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 03/39] libertas: potential oops in debugfs Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 04/39] aacraid: prevent invalid pointer dereference Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 05/39] ACPICA: Interpreter: Fix Store() when implicit conversion is not possible Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 06/39] ACPICA: DeRefOf operator: Update to fully resolve FieldUnit and BufferField refs Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 07/39] ACPICA: Return error if DerefOf resolves to a null package element Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 08/39] ACPICA: Fix for a Store->ArgX when ArgX contains a reference to a field Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 09/39] USB: mos7840: fix tiocmget error handling Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 10/39] crypto: ansi_cprng - Fix off by one error in non-block size request Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 11/39] can: c_can: Fix RX message handling, handle lost message before EOB Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 12/39] 8139cp: re-enable interrupts after tx timeout Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 14/39] SUNRPC handle EKEYEXPIRED in call_refreshresult Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 15/39] SUNRPC: dont map EKEYEXPIRED to EACCES " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 16/39] Nest rename_lock inside vfsmount_lock Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 17/39] exec: do not abuse ->cred_guard_mutex in threadgroup_lock() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 18/39] include/linux/fs.h: disable preempt when acquire i_size_seqcount write lock Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 19/39] perf/ftrace: Fix paranoid level for enabling function tracer Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 20/39] rt2x00: check if device is still available on rt2x00mac_flush() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 21/39] Revert "ima: policy for RAMFS" Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 22/39] exec/ptrace: fix get_dumpable() incorrect tests Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 23/39] ALSA: 6fire: Fix probe of multiple cards Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 24/39] ALSA: msnd: Avoid duplicated driver name Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 25/39] NFSv4: Fix a use-after-free situation in _nfs4_proc_getlk() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 26/39] nfsd: split up nfsd_setattr Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 27/39] nfsd: make sure to balance get/put_write_access Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 28/39] x86/microcode/amd: Tone down printk(), dont treat a missing firmware file as an error Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 29/39] hwmon: (lm90) Fix max6696 alarm handling Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 30/39] block: fix race between request completion and timeout handling Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 31/39] block: fix a probe argument to blk_register_region Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 32/39] block: properly stack underlying max_segment_size to DM device Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 33/39] powerpc/vio: use strcpy in modalias_show Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 34/39] powerpc/powernv: Add PE to its own PELTV Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:56 ` [PATCH 3.4 35/39] powerpc/signals: Mark VSX not saved with small contexts Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:57 ` [PATCH 3.4 36/39] SUNRPC: Fix a data corruption issue when retransmitting RPC calls Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:57 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2013-11-27  0:57 ` [PATCH 3.4 38/39] configfs: fix race between dentry put and lookup Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  0:57 ` [PATCH 3.4 39/39] cris: media platform drivers: fix build Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-27  4:14 ` [PATCH 3.4 00/39] 3.4.71-stable review Guenter Roeck
2013-11-27 22:29 ` Shuah Khan
2013-11-28 10:54 ` Satoru Takeuchi

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