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Commit a9d61e9e authored by Helmut Schaa's avatar Helmut Schaa Committed by John W. Linville
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rt2x00: Convert rt2800pci to use tasklets


Fix interrupt processing on slow machines by using individual tasklets
for each different device interrupt. This ensures that while a RX or TX
status tasklet is scheduled only the according device interrupt is
masked and other interrupts such as TBTT can still be processed.

Also, this allows us to use tasklet_hi_schedule for TBTT and PRETBTT
processing which is required to not send out beacons with a wrong DTIM
count (due to delayed periodic beacon updates). Furthermore, this
improves the latency between the TBTT and sending out buffered multi-
and broadcast traffic.

As a nice bonus, the interrupt handling overhead is reduced such that
rt2800pci gains around 25% more throuhput on a rt3052 MIPS board.

Signed-off-by: default avatarHelmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarGertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIvo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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