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Re: [PATCH] ar9170usb: fix panic triggered by undersized rxstream buffer

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On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 21:51 +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> While ar9170's USB transport packet size is currently set to 8KiB,
> the PHY is capable of receiving AMPDUs with up to 64KiB.
> Such a large frame will be split over several rx URBs and
> exceed the previously allocated space for rx stream reconstruction.
> 
> This patch increases the buffer size to 64KiB which is
> in fact the phy & rx stream designed size limit.

That's a pretty high order allocation, you may want to paged allocation
-- you'll end up doing a order 5 allocation here!

johannes


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