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2011/8/14 Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hey Chris,
>
> 2011/6/1 Chris Vine <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Summary: Traffic sent up from the broadcom wireless device generates
>> copious reports of "Stopped TX ring 1" but always carries on with its
>> job and stays up, although its traffic is slower than on received
>> packets.  Received traffic on the other hand reports no errors until
>> the spate of "Out of order TX status report on DMA ring 1" errors
>> occurs, which seems to happen at random (albeit accompanied on my
>> failed transfer by a single "Stopped TX ring 1" log entry), and when it
>> does happen brings the wireless link to a halt. Wireless traffic can be
>> restarted simply by reassociating with the AP.
>
> So it seems heavy load of RX can cause problems with TX. I just though
> of one another reason, could you test one more thing for me?
>
> Edit drivers/net/wireless/b43/dma.h and change define from value 64 to
> in the line:
> #define B43_RXRING_SLOTS                64

I meant "to 8":
#define B43_RXRING_SLOTS                8

-- 
Rafał
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