On 05/21/2013 10:01 PM, Alan Ott wrote: > David Hauweele noticed that the mrf24j40 would hang arbitrarily after some > period of heavy traffic. Two race conditions were discovered, and the > driver was changed to use threaded interrupts, since the enable/disable of > interrupts in the driver has recently been a lighning rod whenever issues > arise related to interrupts (costing engineering time), and since threaded > interrupts are the right way to do it. > > Alan Ott (3): > mrf24j40: Move INIT_COMPLETION() to before packet transmission > mrf24j40: Use threaded IRQ handler > mrf24j40: Use level-triggered interrupts > > drivers/net/ieee802154/mrf24j40.c | 31 +++++++++---------------------- > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
I forgot to add, I ran ping -f both ways all afternoon (6.5 hours), and it seems solid. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
