Recent changes in the setup for preemptible periodic work fixed most
of the problems with NETDEV watchdog timeouts; however, some variants
of the bcm43xx device still had the problem. These were fixed by setting
the parameter MAXIMUM_BADNESS to 0. By doing so, all the functionality
associated with calculating the 'badness' of the upcoming periodic work
is no longer needed; therefore it is removed.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

John,

This patch relies on "[PATCH] bcm43xx: fix netdev watchdog timeouts", which
was submitted on 9/14/06. It is important for this one, as well as those
already queued, to make the 2.6.19 cutoff.

Thanks,

Larry


Index: wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
===================================================================
--- wireless-2.6.orig/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
+++ wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
@@ -3136,67 +3136,32 @@ static void do_periodic_work(struct bcm4
        schedule_delayed_work(&bcm->periodic_work, HZ * 15);
 }
 
-/* Estimate a "Badness" value based on the periodic work
- * state-machine state. "Badness" is worse (bigger), if the
- * periodic work will take longer.
- */
-static int estimate_periodic_work_badness(unsigned int state)
-{
-       int badness = 0;
-
-       if (state % 8 == 0) /* every 120 sec */
-               badness += 10;
-       if (state % 4 == 0) /* every 60 sec */
-               badness += 5;
-       if (state % 2 == 0) /* every 30 sec */
-               badness += 1;
-       if (state % 1 == 0) /* every 15 sec */
-               badness += 1;
-
-#define BADNESS_LIMIT  4
-       return badness;
-}
-
 static void bcm43xx_periodic_work_handler(void *d)
 {
        struct bcm43xx_private *bcm = d;
        unsigned long flags;
        u32 savedirqs = 0;
-       int badness;
-
-       badness = estimate_periodic_work_badness(bcm->periodic_state);
-       if (badness > BADNESS_LIMIT) {
-               /* Periodic work will take a long time, so we want it to
-                * be preemtible.
-                */
-               mutex_lock(&bcm->mutex);
-               netif_tx_disable(bcm->net_dev);
-               spin_lock_irqsave(&bcm->irq_lock, flags);
-               bcm43xx_mac_suspend(bcm);
-               if (bcm43xx_using_pio(bcm))
-                       bcm43xx_pio_freeze_txqueues(bcm);
-               savedirqs = bcm43xx_interrupt_disable(bcm, BCM43xx_IRQ_ALL);
-               spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bcm->irq_lock, flags);
-               bcm43xx_synchronize_irq(bcm);
-       } else {
-               /* Periodic work should take short time, so we want low
-                * locking overhead.
-                */
-               mutex_lock(&bcm->mutex);
-               spin_lock_irqsave(&bcm->irq_lock, flags);
-       }
 
+       /* Periodic work may take a long time, so we want it to
+        * be preemtible. In any case, we need to disable transmits.
+        */
+       mutex_lock(&bcm->mutex);
+       netif_tx_disable(bcm->net_dev);
+       spin_lock_irqsave(&bcm->irq_lock, flags);
+       bcm43xx_mac_suspend(bcm);
+       if (bcm43xx_using_pio(bcm))
+               bcm43xx_pio_freeze_txqueues(bcm);
+       savedirqs = bcm43xx_interrupt_disable(bcm, BCM43xx_IRQ_ALL);
+       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bcm->irq_lock, flags);
+       bcm43xx_synchronize_irq(bcm);
        do_periodic_work(bcm);
-
-       if (badness > BADNESS_LIMIT) {
-               spin_lock_irqsave(&bcm->irq_lock, flags);
-               tasklet_enable(&bcm->isr_tasklet);
-               bcm43xx_interrupt_enable(bcm, savedirqs);
-               if (bcm43xx_using_pio(bcm))
-                       bcm43xx_pio_thaw_txqueues(bcm);
-               bcm43xx_mac_enable(bcm);
-               netif_wake_queue(bcm->net_dev);
-       }
+       spin_lock_irqsave(&bcm->irq_lock, flags);
+       tasklet_enable(&bcm->isr_tasklet);
+       bcm43xx_interrupt_enable(bcm, savedirqs);
+       if (bcm43xx_using_pio(bcm))
+               bcm43xx_pio_thaw_txqueues(bcm);
+       bcm43xx_mac_enable(bcm);
+       netif_wake_queue(bcm->net_dev);
        mmiowb();
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bcm->irq_lock, flags);
        mutex_unlock(&bcm->mutex);
-
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