So, I have a working installation of OpenWrt, Kamikaze r12987 on my
WRT54GS (v1), complete with b43 driver and functional AP mode.  Yay so
far!

What I have observed though is that if I try to move any bulk (i.e. lots
of) data through the wireless interface, configured with WPA2, softirq
goes through the roof:

CPU:   0% usr   0% sys   0% nice   0% idle   0% io   0% irq  99% softirq
Load average: 2.36 0.78 0.29
  PID  PPID USER     STAT   VSZ %MEM %CPU COMMAND
    3     2 root     RW<      0   0%  57% [ksoftirqd/0]
  715     1 root     R     3932  13%  19% hostapd -B /var/run/hostapd-wlan0.con
  501     1 root     S     1968   7%  10% udhcpc -t 0 -i eth0.1 -b -p /var/run/

I enquired on the bcm43xx-dev list about this and they recommended I ask
OpenWrt people about it.  My posting can be seen at:

https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2008-October/008257.html

So has anyone else experienced this problem?  Any solutions?

Or I'd even be glad to hear from anyone who has a working b43 driver
with WPA (or WPA2) and doesn't experience high softirq load when they
ram bulk data through, even just as a sanity check that it is possible.

Thanx!

b.

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