On Tuesday 07 April 2009 21:46:29 Johannes Berg wrote: > On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 21:40 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > > > Ok I see. So you say it's OK to lower hw->queues after ieee80211_register. > > Let's say it's acceptable ;) > > > Should I reset hw->queues back to the value ieee80211_register was called with, before > > I call unregister/free? Are there resources allocated by the number of queues? > > There are resources allocated, notably the qdiscs etc. in > alloc_ether_mq() or whatever it's called in register_hw(). But the > networking core should keep track of those so it shouldn't matter what > the value is. OTOH if it can switch back and forth the pending packets > are done per queue... for example ieee80211_clear_tx_pending will be > called at unregister times, so if it's possible to be up with 4 queues, > and later be up with 1, you will want to unregister with 4. Ok, sounds like a huge hack to me. :) I'll think about it. -- Greetings, Michael. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
