On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 3:42 AM, Larry Finger <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/19/2013 06:47 PM, Julian Calaby wrote: >> >> >> Is it be possible to increase the number of slots at runtime? Maybe an >> even better solution would be to keep the existing number of slots, >> and if they run out, reset and increase incrementally to some sensible >> maximum value. > > > The number could be increased a bit, but on systems with 32-bit DMA such as > the BCM4318, the maximum size of the ring buffer is 4KB. Even more > importantly, each slot is allocated an skb of 2390 bytes. Even at 256 slots, > the memory allocation is pretty large. > > Larry >
Is this an issue that vendor drivers are also vulnerable to? If it is a firmware issue, I would certainly think so. -- 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
