Hi all,
I think I have a fix for the bcm43xx bug that leads to NETDEV WATCHDOG tx
timeouts and would like it
to get as much testing as possible as this bug affects V2.6.18-rcX. If the
problem is truly
fixed, I hope to get the fix into mainline before release of the bug into the
stable series.
I got the idea for the fix when I discovered that the timeout interval used for
the watchdog is the
default value of 5 seconds. Obviously, the few milliseconds used in the
periodic work handler
weren't causing us to "just miss".
To exacerbate the problem, I changed the repeat timer for periodic work from 15
to 1 sec. I also set
BADNESS_LIMIT to 0. As a result, I was running the problem code once per second
instead of once per
minute. Now failures would occur in minutes instead of hours.
Operating from the premise that the DMA needed some time to reach the idle
state after the MAC was
suspended, I tried various delays, but nothing worked.
Then I decided to test the premise that the problem was associated with
shutting down and restarting
the network. That lead to the current patch, which has run for what is
effectively 100 times longer
than previous versions.
Larry
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Index: wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
===================================================================
--- wireless-2.6.orig/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
+++ wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
@@ -3244,8 +3244,6 @@ static void bcm43xx_periodic_work_handle
* be preemtible.
*/
mutex_lock(&bcm->mutex);
- netif_stop_queue(bcm->net_dev);
- synchronize_net();
spin_lock_irqsave(&bcm->irq_lock, flags);
bcm43xx_mac_suspend(bcm);
if (bcm43xx_using_pio(bcm))
@@ -3270,7 +3268,6 @@ static void bcm43xx_periodic_work_handle
if (bcm43xx_using_pio(bcm))
bcm43xx_pio_thaw_txqueues(bcm);
bcm43xx_mac_enable(bcm);
- netif_wake_queue(bcm->net_dev);
}
mmiowb();
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bcm->irq_lock, flags);
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