On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 11:34:16PM +0100, Fabio Rossi wrote: > Hi Bob, > I have tried your patch as I get many errors as in subject when I transfer > huge files (I'm using as a test a 1GB file). With the patch I have the same > errors. > > I'm using wireless-testing.git (v2.6.33-rc2-47131-gc72a18c) in managed mode > (no AP). Ok, well the patch only will affect AP mode -- it addresses a bug where multicast AP frames are queued but not always processed. I wonder if your workload is just filling up the queues and then the queues are awakened prematurely. There's a check in ath5k_tx_processq to only re-enable the queue when there are 40 tx buffers left, but there are a few other paths that re-enable the queues -- also accounting on txbuf_len could theoretically get broken. Maybe a printk in ath5k_tx_queue of sc->txbuf_len caN show how many buffers are typically available when entering? -- Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com -- 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
