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On Wednesday 25 February 2009 19:35:15 Larry Finger wrote:
> Michael Buesch wrote:
> > On Wednesday 25 February 2009 17:00:31 Larry Finger wrote:
> >>
> >> The 00:26:24 event was the interface going offline. That happens with
> >> proprietary firmware, thus I think that problem is with the driver, rather than
> >> the firmware.
> > 
> > Are you sure it's a problem at all and not just simply failure to deliver
> > certain important management frames due to _extreme_ queue pressure?
> > Especially the tight RX queue will have effects like dropped frames.
> 
> No, I don't know. If I get the same problem with a queue depth of 64, is there
> any problem with increasing it to 128 for testing?

The RX queue length can have any size.
The TX queue length % 2 must be zero. But a BUILD_BUG_ON will trigger if it isn't.

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Greetings, Michael.
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