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    ath9k: disable MIB interrupts to fix interrupt storm · 92cccc2c
    Luis R. Rodriguez authored
    Enabling the MIB interrupts has proven to cause an
    interrupt storm after 7 hours of run. We will make use of the
    MIB interrupt once we have ANI supported added so for now
    to cure this we disable the interrupt.
    
    The interrupt storm can be seen as follows after 7 hours of run
    as reported by  Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>:
    
    18:28:38          sum   1106.00
    18:28:39          sum   1037.62
    18:28:40          sum   1069.00
    18:28:41          sum   1167.00
    18:28:42          sum   1155.00
    18:28:43          sum   1339.00
    18:28:44          sum  18355.00
    18:28:45          sum  17845.45
    18:28:46          sum  15285.00
    18:28:47          sum  17511.00
    18:28:48          sum  17568.69
    18:28:49          sum  17704.04
    18:28:50          sum  18566.67
    18:28:51          sum  18913.13
    
    at 18:28:44 the MIB interrupt kicked off and caused huge
    latency which can be seen even on a video he submitted:
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GeCx1gZMpASigned-off-by: default avatarLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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