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| author | Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> | 2011-05-19 11:48:45 -0500 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2011-05-26 15:43:30 -0400 |
| commit | 0019a2c9277bf6d083032a5a9857249e75407a8c (patch) | |
| tree | 6388a7f514503194871f18319ed24e795e845126 /drivers/net | |
| parent | a9e12869758430424804dd4332e0d2afdfdf00b0 (diff) | |
rtlwifi: Use order 2 RX buffer allocation only if necessary
Although a previous fix handles the kernel panics that result from
failure to allocate a new RX buffer, memory fragmentation can be
reduced if the amsdu_8k capability is disabled as new buffers need only
be of O(0), not O(2).
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c index c2b83a57c581..89100e7c553b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c @@ -1115,6 +1115,13 @@ static int _rtl_pci_init_rx_ring(struct ieee80211_hw *hw) rtlpci->rx_ring[rx_queue_idx].idx = 0; + /* If amsdu_8k is disabled, set buffersize to 4096. This + * change will reduce memory fragmentation. + */ + if (rtlpci->rxbuffersize > 4096 && + rtlpriv->rtlhal.disable_amsdu_8k) + rtlpci->rxbuffersize = 4096; + for (i = 0; i < rtlpci->rxringcount; i++) { struct sk_buff *skb = dev_alloc_skb(rtlpci->rxbuffersize); |