[PATCH ath-next] wifi: ath12k: change MAC buffer ring size to 4096

[Baochen Qiang]

On 10/23/2026 10:43 AM, Shawn Guo wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2026 at 10:13:18AM +0800, Baochen Qiang wrote:
>> On 10/22/2026 9:44 PM, Shawn Guo wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>> I bisected drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k between v7.3 (broken) and
>>> the ath tag (working). It lands on:
>>>
>>>   15f7603b69a8 ("wifi: ath12k: Increase RXDMA buffer ring size for default memory profile")
>>>
>>> The previous commit, 643f0bf93617, still has 4096 entries and is broken.
>>> 15f7603b69a8 changes one line, .rxdma_buf_ring_size from 4096 to 8192,
>>> and works.
>>
>> thanks for sharing this. I can repro it using the 481 firmware once get 15f7603b69a8 reverted.
> 
> Thanks for confirming!
> 
>> so the rule here seems that rxdma_buf_ring_size must be at least twice as large as
>> DP_RX_MAC_BUF_RING_SIZE (I also tries four times large, it works). This rule looks
>> reasonable to me, since WCN7850 get twos HW MACs and its firmware setups rx_mac_buf ring
>> for each, and each ring fills itself using the buffers all from the single RXDMA buffer ring.
>>
>> maybe I should submit a patch mandate this rule.
> 
> I'm more concerned about how we would fix the regression for 7.3.x stable
> kernel.

we can try to ask stable team to backport 15f7603b69a8 ?