Re: [ath5k-devel] ath5k: 2.6.32-rc6 no further txbuf available, dropping packet

2010-01-13 Thread Fabio Rossi
On Tuesday 12 January 2010 17:35:04 Bob Copeland wrote: Ok, well then at least we know that it is working :) Do you get any ill effects besides the log spam? If so then there could be an issue with starvation of the processing tasklet. Or maybe we should look at changing the limits for

Re: [ath5k-devel] ath5k: 2.6.32-rc6 no further txbuf available, dropping packet

2010-01-12 Thread Bob Copeland
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Fabio Rossi ross...@inwind.it wrote: I put a printk debug statement in ath5k_tx_queue() to see how sc-txbuf_len changes. The maximum number of buffers is 200 as defined by ATH_TXBUF. During the file transfer, sometimes, sctxbuf_len decreases up to 1, then it

Re: [ath5k-devel] ath5k: 2.6.32-rc6 no further txbuf available, dropping packet

2010-01-11 Thread Fabio Rossi
On Saturday 09 January 2010 04:41:32 Bob Copeland wrote: Ok, well the patch only will affect AP mode -- it addresses a bug where multicast AP frames are queued but not always processed. I wonder if your workload is just filling up the queues and then the queues are awakened prematurely.

Re: [ath5k-devel] ath5k: 2.6.32-rc6 no further txbuf available, dropping packet

2010-01-08 Thread Fabio Rossi
Hi Bob, I have tried your patch as I get many errors as in subject when I transfer huge files (I'm using as a test a 1GB file). With the patch I have the same errors. I'm using wireless-testing.git (v2.6.33-rc2-47131-gc72a18c) in managed mode (no AP). Fabio On Wednesday 11 November 2009

Re: [ath5k-devel] ath5k: 2.6.32-rc6 no further txbuf available, dropping packet

2010-01-08 Thread Bob Copeland
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 11:34:16PM +0100, Fabio Rossi wrote: Hi Bob, I have tried your patch as I get many errors as in subject when I transfer huge files (I'm using as a test a 1GB file). With the patch I have the same errors. I'm using wireless-testing.git (v2.6.33-rc2-47131-gc72a18c)