Re: More data on open-source firmware crash

[Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>]

Francesco Gringoli wrote:
> 
> On Feb 24, 2009, at 5:35 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
> 
>> Francesco Gringoli wrote:
>>> What about drop info from dmesg? Another try could be halve the dma
>>> queue, I believe now it is 64 slots. Could you give a try setting it
>>> to 32?
>>
>> The RX DMA queue was 64 and TX was 256. Both will be 32 in my next run.
>>
>> I don't understand the "drop info from dmesg" part.
> Sorry Larry,
> 
> sometimes when I modify something, I can read
> 
> [334415.451028] b43-phy244 debug: RX: Packet dropped
> 
> in the dmesg because the received bytes were not correctly copied
> between the "air-buffer" to the internal buffer and finally to the
> rx-fifo along with the rxheader.
> 
> Did you notice something similar?

I hadn't noticed them before, but I do see one of these messages just before
some of my out-of-order cookies. There is no associated diagnostic message, thus
it must come from the status.rate_index test. I'll see if I can get some info
from there.

Larry