Tony Chuang <yhchu...@realtek.com> writes:
>> > +static void rtw_watch_dog_work(struct work_struct *work)
>> > +{
>> > + struct rtw_dev *rtwdev = container_of(work, struct rtw_dev,
>> > + watch_dog_work.work);
>> > + struct rtw_vif *rtwvif;
>> > +
>> > + if (!rtw_flag_check(rtwdev, RTW_FLAG_RUNNING))
>> > + return;
>> > +
>> > + ieee80211_queue_delayed_work(rtwdev->hw,
>> &rtwdev->watch_dog_work,
>> > + RTW_WATCH_DOG_DELAY_TIME);
>>
>> You're aware of the power cost of waking up every 2 seconds? That's a
>> really bad idea, in general, at the very least you should use a more
>> power efficient scheduling here to combine with other wakeups
>> (round_jiffies_relative, or so).
>
> Yeah I knew it, but so far we can only work like this...
> Will use round_jiffies_relative to combine the CPU wakeups.
Can you elaborate more why this horrible timer is needed? And it
definitely needs a comment in the code explaining the reason.
--
Kalle Valo
