Subject: Re: wi performance hack
To: NetBSD Current <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 07/19/2004 16:28:31
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 07:56:44PM +0000, Charles M. Hannum wrote:
> On Monday 19 July 2004 18:52, Holger Weiss wrote:
> > * Charles M. Hannum <abuse@spamalicious.com> [2004-07-19 16:49]:
> > > Here's a new patch that adds some more diagnostics.  Give it a whirl and
> > > let me know what it outputs...
> >
> > wi0: bad alloc 1f7 != 1f9, alloc 2 queue 1 start 1 queued 0 started 2
> > wi0: bad alloc 1f8 != 1f9, alloc 2 queue 2 start 2 queued 0 started 3
> > wi0: bad alloc 1f9 != 1f7, alloc 0 queue 0 start 0 queued 0 started 3
> 
> Hm, I have the suspicion that the card is simply not transmitting packets in
> the order we told it to.  What happens with the following patch instead?

Broadcast/multicast packets are sometimes transmitted out of order.
I would not expect that to affect the order of WI_EV_ALLOC events,
however.

Dave

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