RE: [Ipw2100-devel] ipw2200 stalls on high load
"Cahill, Ben M" <[email protected]> Tue, 5 Feb 2008 08:50:51 -0800
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> > That would mean that count never gets above 8, and that the > RX queue is never restocked. The (count >= 8) part might be > specific to the > 3945/4965 drivers, since they apparently restock the RX queue > in blocks of 8. That's right, the 3945 and 4965 hardware like to see the index change on boundaries of 8. You'll see that, somewhere in the driver code, the lower 3 bits of the index get masked to 0. I don't know what 2200's requirements are in this regard. -- Ben --