netdev - Re: [PATCH] b43: Increase number of RX DMA slots

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Message-Id: <20130219.005206.397289032011003833.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:52:06 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	Larry.Finger@...inger.net
Cc:	linville@...driver.com, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bittorf@...ebottle.com,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] b43: Increase number of RX DMA slots

From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 21:01:20 -0600

> Bastian Bittorf reported that some of the silent freezes on a Linksys WRT54G
> were due to overflow of the RX DMA ring buffer, which was created with 64
> slots. That finding reminded me that I was seeing similar crashed on a netbook,
> which also has a relatively slow processor. After increasing the number of
> slots to 128, runs on the netbook that previously failed now worked; however,
> I found that 109 slots had been used in one test. For that reason, the number
> of slots is being increased to 256.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>

Applied.
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