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Re: rbuf starvation in the iwn driver
On Mon April 12 2010 00:31:48 matthew green wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:49:48PM +1000, matthew green wrote:
> > would you try this variant? it handles the case where MEXTMALLOC()
> > would fail to allocate external storage, and seems to work on my
> > iwn(4). i'll commit this if you confirm it works.
>
> Is there any reason not to replace the implementation of
> iwn_alloc_rbuf() with MEXTMALLOC(), instead?
>
> as in hide this inside iwn_alloc_rbuf()? probably. or do you
> mean give up the private buffer collection? in that case, i
> am not sure what the right solution would be, seems like a
> concept we want to decide for (all?) network drivers...
I suggest we deviate as little as possible from the original driver (OpenBSD's
iwn driver in this case). OpenBSD uses a single MCLGETI call and no private
storage. If necessary we use an adapter function to graft on the rbuf
implementation.
Regards,
Sverre
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