[PATCH] Re allocate the RX DMA buffer to avoid skb conflict Handle all RX packets in the DMA ring buffer

Eugene Krasnikov k.eugene.e at gmail.com
Tue May 28 01:59:16 EDT 2013


> The GFP_ATOMIC is need cause normally the rx skb reallocation is be
> done on interrupt context, although currently it is
> implemented on the work queue but is not very correctly, both the
> interrupt register and skb unmap/refill should be implemented
> in the interrupt  context as quickly as possible to avoid the hardware
> DMA engine reuse the skb or stuck due to some register no be cleared.
> I'll submit another patch to move them to interrupt context instead of
> in bottom half.
>

You can move the code to wcn36xx_irq_rx_ready.

This patch is number one for me today so please send updated version
so we can review it and get it merged today;) But we must be careful
with DXE part because issues there are really hard to track.

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Best regards,
Eugene



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