b43: Increase number of RX DMA slots
authorLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:01:20 +0000 (17:01 +0000)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 6 Mar 2013 03:24:04 +0000 (03:24 +0000)
commitc6f8eab7b3f687d2642e2c6e99da46d9dcef3927
treec31d143cc1f135321f5d2d606b05fd1e8ead77af
parenta638e6bbea546a265787029b5016a85af494967f
b43: Increase number of RX DMA slots

commit ccae0e50c16a7f7adb029c169147400d1ce9f703 upstream.

Bastian Bittorf reported that some of the silent freezes on a Linksys WRT54G
were due to overflow of the RX DMA ring buffer, which was created with 64
slots. That finding reminded me that I was seeing similar crashed on a netbook,
which also has a relatively slow processor. After increasing the number of
slots to 128, runs on the netbook that previously failed now worked; however,
I found that 109 slots had been used in one test. For that reason, the number
of slots is being increased to 256.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Bastian Bittorf <bittorf@bluebottle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
drivers/net/wireless/b43/dma.h