Re: [PATCH v4] rtw88: pci: Move a mass of jobs in hw IRQ to soft IRQ

From: Kalle Valo
Date: Mon Sep 02 2019 - 08:18:48 EST


Tony Chuang <yhchuang@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> From: Jian-Hong Pan
>> Subject: [PATCH v4] rtw88: pci: Move a mass of jobs in hw IRQ to soft IRQ
>>
>> There is a mass of jobs between spin lock and unlock in the hardware
>> IRQ which will occupy much time originally. To make system work more
>> efficiently, this patch moves the jobs to the soft IRQ (bottom half) to
>> reduce the time in hardware IRQ.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jian-Hong Pan <jian-hong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Now it works fine with MSI interrupt enabled.
>
> But this patch is conflicting with MSI interrupt patch.
> Is there a better way we can make Kalle apply them more smoothly?
> I can rebase them and submit both if you're OK.

Yeah, submitting all the MSI patches in the same patchset is the easiest
approach. That way they apply cleanly to wireless-drivers-next.

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