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Re: [PATCH] ath9k: Use GFP_ATOMIC when allocating private area

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On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Sujith <m.sujith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> Interesting, I hadn't thought about stopping the queues, when would
>> they be resumed then though, or rather who? I'll a rework of this
>> ontop of more DMA fun, let me know what you think. I just tested this.
>>
>
> In TX completion, when we see that a queue is stopped, we wake up that queue
> if the depth is less than a threshold.

Ah yeah I see that now, so this will wake it up but only if we're
processing the txq on completion. So technically speaking if we ran
out of memory on the first attempted skb, wouldn't we never resume it?

  Luis
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