On Thursday 30 July 2009 04:10:32 Larry Finger wrote: > Francesco Gringoli wrote: > > > > is this stuff related in some way to the error triggered by the > > opensource firmware? What happens with your patch? > > Using the same test with tcpperf running on one console and a flood > ping on a second, the system lasted 7 minutes before meta->skb was > NULL. The data are: > > b43: meta data: skb (null) > dmaaddr 000000004fa820bc > is_last_fragment 1 > b43: ring data: nr_slots 256 > used_slots 205 > current_slot 105 > index 1 > tx 1 > max_used_slots 256 > > Notice that the DMA queue is not even close to full - there are about > 50 slots left or enough space for 25 more packets.
Yeah but it _was_ full earlier (max_used_slots 256). I don't say that this is triggering the issue, however. skb=NULL somehow smells like a double-free caused by a double-report or something like that. > This error was generated with the DMA queue full patch applied. -- Greetings, Michael. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
