[patch 10/29] ath9k: Fix ath9k prevents CPU to enter C3 states

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Mar 10 2011 - 19:02:11 EST


2.6.37-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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 <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
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");


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