Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 23:40:40 +0200 From: "Andriy Voskoboinyk" <s3erios@gmail.com> To: "Adrian Chadd" <adrian@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: net80211: why we ca'nt use the net80211 taskqueue for everything Message-ID: <op.ybrih2vkiew4ia@localhost> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmoneUBz4Vt3hFj8S4G_o8ptd3Z-NL5%2B6HuG33C3C_x-2jQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAJ-VmoneUBz4Vt3hFj8S4G_o8ptd3Z-NL5%2B6HuG33C3C_x-2jQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Sun, 24 Jan 2016 22:22:44 +0200 було написано Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>: Hi, is it actual for wpi(4) / iwn(4) ? > hi, > > andriy has a few reviews out that tidy up some things, which I'd reply > to, but .. reviews is offline. So, here's the 30 second version: > > * the net80211 taskqueue runs the software scan engine, and the > software scan engine currently sleeps whilst it's running. > > This means that if you put newstate, deferred transmit, etc into the > net80211 taskqueue, then it just won't run during scan. > > The net80211 software scan thing should be modified to not sleep > whilst it's waiting for scan results and instead just kick off another > timer event to finish that part of the loop. Then yes, we can just > migrate * to the net80211 task queue and use it for all serialisation > of a wifi driver. > > (And yes, I'd like to see that done ASAP..) > > Thanks, > > > -adrian
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