Commit 0019a2c9 authored by Larry Finger's avatar Larry Finger Committed by John W. Linville

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: default avatarLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent a9e12869
......@@ -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);
......
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