This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ath9k: Fix ath9k prevents CPU to enter C3 states
to the 2.6.37-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ath9k-fix-ath9k-prevents-cpu-to-enter-c3-states.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.37 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From [email protected] Tue Mar 8 11:43:32 2011
From: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 23:00:30 +0100
Subject: ath9k: Fix ath9k prevents CPU to enter C3 states
To: Greg KH <[email protected]>
Cc: Mohammed Shafi <[email protected]>, Thomas Bächler
<[email protected]>, [email protected], "John W. Linville"
<[email protected]>, Luis Rodriguez <[email protected]>, Mohammed
Shajakhan <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
From: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <[email protected]>
This is a backport of upstream commit 0f5cd45960173ba5b36727decbb4a241cbd35ef9.
The DMA latency issue is observed only in Intel pinetrail platforms
but in the driver we had a default PM-QOS value of 55. This caused
unnecessary power consumption and battery drain in other platforms.
Remove the pm-qos thing in the driver code and address the throughput
issue in Intel pinetrail platfroms in user space using any one of
the scripts in below links:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/scripts/cpudmalatency.c
http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/files/netlatency.c.txt
More details can be found in the following bugzilla link:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27532
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bächler <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.h | 3 ---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c | 4 ----
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c | 4 ----
3 files changed, 11 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.h
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
#include <linux/device.h>
#include <linux/leds.h>
#include <linux/completion.h>
-#include <linux/pm_qos_params.h>
#include "debug.h"
#include "common.h"
@@ -647,8 +646,6 @@ struct ath_softc {
struct ath_descdma txsdma;
struct ath_ant_comb ant_comb;
-
- struct pm_qos_request_list pm_qos_req;
};
struct ath_wiphy {
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c
@@ -758,9 +758,6 @@ int ath9k_init_device(u16 devid, struct
ath_init_leds(sc);
ath_start_rfkill_poll(sc);
- pm_qos_add_request(&sc->pm_qos_req, PM_QOS_CPU_DMA_LATENCY,
- PM_QOS_DEFAULT_VALUE);
-
return 0;
error_world:
@@ -829,7 +826,6 @@ void ath9k_deinit_device(struct ath_soft
}
ieee80211_unregister_hw(hw);
- pm_qos_remove_request(&sc->pm_qos_req);
ath_rx_cleanup(sc);
ath_tx_cleanup(sc);
ath9k_deinit_softc(sc);
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
@@ -1245,8 +1245,6 @@ static int ath9k_start(struct ieee80211_
ath9k_btcoex_timer_resume(sc);
}
- pm_qos_update_request(&sc->pm_qos_req, 55);
-
mutex_unlock:
mutex_unlock(&sc->mutex);
@@ -1425,8 +1423,6 @@ static void ath9k_stop(struct ieee80211_
sc->sc_flags |= SC_OP_INVALID;
- pm_qos_update_request(&sc->pm_qos_req, PM_QOS_DEFAULT_VALUE);
-
mutex_unlock(&sc->mutex);
ath_print(common, ATH_DBG_CONFIG, "Driver halt\n");
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-2.6.37/ath9k-fix-ath9k-prevents-cpu-to-enter-c3-states.patch
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