2013/2/18 Larry Finger <[email protected]>: > Bastian Bittorf reported that some of the silent freezes on a Linksys WRT54G > were due to overflow of the RX DMA ring buffer, which was created with 64 > slots. That finding reminded me that I was seeing similar crashed on a > netbook, > which also has a relatively slow processor. After increasing the number of > slots to 128, runs on the netbook that previously failed now worked; however, > I found that 109 slots had been used in one test. For that reason, the number > of slots is being increased to 256.
So probably ideal solution is to use 128 *and* fix the driver's failing on overflow ;) Did you try it on some old device? Just for sure firmware&DMA will handle it correctly. -- Rafał -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
