2011/12/15 <francesco.gringoli@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > This patch addresses a bug in the dma worker code that keeps draining > packets even when the hardware queues are full. In such cases packets > can not be passed down to the device and are erroneusly dropped by the > code. > > This problem was already discussed here > > http://www.mail-archive.com/b43-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg01413.html > > and acknowledged by Michael. > > The patch also introduces separate workers for each hardware queues > and dedicated buffers where storing packets from mac80211 before sending > them down to the hardware. Have you considered just a one worked iterating over queues? I'm not sure if it's efficient to have so many workers, each can be stopped&resumed, each is taking wl mutex... -- Rafał -- 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
