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From: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
To: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wl12xx: Restart TX when TX descriptors are available
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 23:05:43 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1304107543.12586.160.camel@cumari> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1303134251-31514-1-git-send-email-ido@wizery.com>

On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 16:44 +0300, Ido Yariv wrote:
> The driver stops sending TX packets when either there aren't enough
> memory blocks, or it runs out of TX descriptors. The driver continues to
> send packets to the FW only when more memory blocks are available.
> 
> The FW might free TX descriptors without freeing the corresponding
> memory blocks, especially when dynamic memory is enabled. In cases where
> memory blocks are not freed at all, the driver will keep waiting for
> more memory blocks indefinitely.
> 
> Fix this by clearing the WL1271_FLAG_FW_TX_BUSY flag when there are
> available TX descriptors.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
> ---

Thanks, Ido.  Applied.

-- 
Cheers,
Luca.


      reply	other threads:[~2011-04-29 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-18 13:44 [PATCH] wl12xx: Restart TX when TX descriptors are available Ido Yariv
2011-04-29 20:05 ` Luciano Coelho [this message]

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