Bug 447013 - Taking iwlagn interface down slows down system for 1-2 seconds
Summary: Taking iwlagn interface down slows down system for 1-2 seconds
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: John W. Linville
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-05-16 23:15 UTC by James
Modified: 2009-02-24 04:46 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-01-16 15:41:50 UTC
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Description James 2008-05-16 23:15:46 UTC
Description of problem:
Taking the iwl4965 interface down (e.g., via NetworkManager or ifconfig wlan0
down) causes the system to become slow for a 1-2 seconds (mouse and screen
update very jerky, sound sticks).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.24.7-92.fc8

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Take wlan0 down.
  
Actual results:
System sluggish for a few seconds.

Expected results:
That this does not happen.

Additional info:
No ominous messages found in dmesg.

$ cat /proc/interrupts 
           CPU0       CPU1       
  0:        254         60   IO-APIC-edge      timer
  1:          4       8861   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
  8:          2          1   IO-APIC-edge      rtc
  9:        233     465474   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
 12:     214259         67   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
 14:      13829      68661   IO-APIC-edge      libata
 15:      98012         44   IO-APIC-edge      libata
 17:          0      57472   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb3, sdhci:slot0,
sdhci:slot0, i915@pci:0000:00:02.0
 18:    1801640        494   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb7
 19:     223975          3   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb6, firewire_ohci
 20:       5772          1   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb5
 21:          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb4
 22:     305432        145   IO-APIC-fasteoi   HDA Intel
216:     231627     339343   PCI-MSI-edge      iwl4965
217:       2255       3146   PCI-MSI-edge      eth0
NMI:          0          0   Non-maskable interrupts
LOC:   18778974   18636674   Local timer interrupts
RES:    2333168    2505174   Rescheduling interrupts
CAL:        431        217   function call interrupts
TLB:      18156      17263   TLB shootdowns
TRM:          0          0   Thermal event interrupts
SPU:          0          0   Spurious interrupts
ERR:          0
MIS:          0

Comment 1 James 2008-07-22 07:02:35 UTC
Still happens with kernel 2.6.25.11-60.fc8.

Comment 2 James 2008-10-17 11:25:40 UTC
Still present in kernel-PAE-2.6.26.6-46.fc8.

Comment 3 James 2008-10-20 08:58:29 UTC
Seen in x86-64 with kernel-2.6.26.6-79.fc9.x86_64.

Comment 4 James 2008-10-30 10:37:52 UTC
Also in kernel-2.6.27.4-58.fc10.x86_64 from Rawhide.

Comment 5 James 2008-11-09 12:30:46 UTC
Seen in kernel-2.6.27.5-30.fc9.x86_64, with iwlagn driver.

Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 10:43:31 UTC
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Comment 7 Bradley 2008-11-26 10:51:33 UTC
Happens with 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64

Comment 8 James 2008-12-02 00:43:06 UTC
This seems to be gathering some momentum upstream:

http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1790

Comment 9 James 2008-12-02 20:33:56 UTC
There a claim of a fix now in the above link.

Comment 10 John W. Linville 2008-12-11 18:47:10 UTC
Yes, unfortunately that patch does not apply cleanly to 2.6.27 or even 2.6.28-rc7.  It will be a while before this is available in Fedora...

Comment 11 John W. Linville 2009-01-14 21:01:02 UTC
Could you try a Rawhide kernel?  Is the problem resolved there?

Comment 12 James 2009-01-16 08:54:05 UTC
The problem appears fixed in kernel-2.6.29-0.38.rc1.git4.fc11.x86_64. I've disabled wireless several times now without screen update interruption, sound skipping, or PS/2 port or ACPI EC timeouts.

Comment 13 John W. Linville 2009-01-16 15:41:50 UTC
Woohoo!

Comment 14 James 2009-01-16 15:49:40 UTC
John, is there any chance this will make it back into one of the more mature F10 kernel lines?

Comment 15 John W. Linville 2009-01-19 15:04:36 UTC
Most likely not until 2.6.29 is released...sorry. :-(


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