On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 01:13:22PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 08:32:44AM -0700, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 16:02 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > > > On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 08:38 -0400, Bob Copeland wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 10:49:34AM +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > > > > > How this patch? > > > > > > > > Looks fine to me. Some nitpicking below but feel free to add my > > > > > > > > Acked-by: Bob Copeland <m...@bobcopeland.com> > > > > > > Done. > > > > Best regards, > > Maxim Levitsky > > > > --- > > > > commit 616afa397b3e843f2aba06be12a30e72dfff7740 > > Author: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevit...@gmail.com> > > Date: Thu Jun 17 23:21:42 2010 +0300 > > > > ath5k: disable ASPM > > > > Atheros card on Acer Aspire One (AOA150, Atheros Communications Inc. > > AR5001 > > Wireless Network Adapter [168c:001c] (rev 01)) doesn't work well with > > ASPM > > enabled. With ASPM ath5k will eventually stall on heavy traffic with > > often > > 'unsupported jumbo' warnings appearing. Disabling ASPM L0s in ath5k > > fixes > > these problems. > > Also card sends a storm of RXORN interrupts even though medium is idle. > > > > Reproduced with pcie_aspm=force and by using 'nc < /dev/zero > > > /dev/null' at > > both ends (usually stalls within seconds). > > > > Unfortunately BIOS enables ASPM on this card by default on these > > machines > > This means that, problem shows up (less often) without pcie_aspm=force > > too. > > Therefore to benefit from this fix you need to _enable_ CONFIG_PCIEASPM > > > > > > All credit for this patch goes to Jussi Kivilinna > > <jussi.kivili...@mbnet.fi> > > for finding and fixing this bug. > > > > Based on patch that is > > From: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivili...@mbnet.fi> > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevit...@gmail.com> > > Acked-by: Bob Copeland <m...@bobcopeland.com> > > Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodrig...@atheros.com>
So NACK now, to really fix this correctly its best to instead disable L0s but to force enable also L1 if the device is a PCI Express device. All Atheros legacy devices (ath5k) should work correctly with L1. Kernels with CONFIG_PCIEASPM would end up disabling even L1 for pre PCI 1.1 devices. Luis _______________________________________________ ath5k-devel mailing list ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel
