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From: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
To: Luis Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Cc: Senthilkumar Balasubramanian
	<Senthilkumar.Balasubramanian@Atheros.com>,
	"ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org" <ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linville@tuxdriver.com" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH v2 2/2] ath9k: Use GFP_ATOMIC when allocating TX private area
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 10:20:24 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18742.4112.665927.756930@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43e72e890812022012o7759400mf002f51c0a3f0eb@mail.gmail.com>

Luis Rodriguez wrote:
> ath_test_get_txq() will not return the queue only if the queue is
> getting full. What the check above guarantees is we have at least one
> buffer to run through procesq before disabling the TX queue, otherwise
> the queue won't be be woken up. Or am I missing something? That is,
> say you just have to TX one skb and we hit -ENOMEM on
> ath_tx_setup_buffer() and you disable the queue. How will this queue
> be awoken if this is true in ath_tx_processq():
> 
> list_empty(&txq->axq_q)

Ok, makes sense.
But the queue can be obtained from txctl, so that code can be removed.

Sujith

      reply	other threads:[~2008-12-03  4:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-03  3:15 [PATCH v2 0/2] ath9k: few memory fixes Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-12-03  3:15 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] ath9k: Check for pci_map_single() errors Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-12-03  3:15   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] ath9k: Use GFP_ATOMIC when allocating TX private area Luis R. Rodriguez
     [not found]     ` <18742.299.281327.259785@localhost.localdomain>
2008-12-03  4:12       ` [ath9k-devel] " Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-12-03  4:50         ` Sujith [this message]

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