On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 01:08:03AM +0200, Nick Kossifidis wrote:He does an extra check...
/*
* Given the use of a self-linked tail be very sure that the hw is
* done with this descriptor; the hw may have done this descriptor
* once and picked it up again...make sure the hw has moved on.
*/
if ((ands->ds_rxstatus1&AR_Done) == 0&& OS_REG_READ(ah, AR_RXDP) == pa)
return HAL_EINPROGRESS;
Sounds like we definitely need that.If the hw uses up all the dma buffers
in one go, there's a good chance we can send the skb to mac80211 while
the hardware is still using it. I guess an easy way to test would be to
set the max rx buffers to 3 or so and watch the fireworks.