From a522550a283de31c7cfc30c7a129ce584e38c582 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ido Yariv Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:49:10 +0200 Subject: wl1271: Fix TX starvation While wl1271_irq_work handles RX directly (by calling wl1271_rx), a different work is scheduled for transmitting packets. The IRQ work might handle more than one interrupt during a single call, including multiple TX completion interrupts. This might starve TX, since no packets are transmitted until all interrupts are handled. Fix this by calling the TX work function directly, instead of deferring it. Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv Reviewed-by: Juuso Oikarinen Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho --- drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_tx.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_tx.h') diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_tx.h b/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_tx.h index d12a129ad11c..f1c906519b7d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_tx.h +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_tx.h @@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ static inline int wl1271_tx_get_queue(int queue) } void wl1271_tx_work(struct work_struct *work); +void wl1271_tx_work_locked(struct wl1271 *wl); void wl1271_tx_complete(struct wl1271 *wl); void wl1271_tx_reset(struct wl1271 *wl); void wl1271_tx_flush(struct wl1271 *wl); -- cgit