svn commit: r190458 - head/sys/dev/wpi

Carlos A. M. dos Santos unixmania at gmail.com
Sun Mar 29 07:12:11 PDT 2009


On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Juli Mallett <jmallett at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Author: jmallett
> Date: Fri Mar 27 03:17:25 2009
> New Revision: 190458
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/190458
>
> Log:
>  o) Check that no overrun or CRC errors were encountered in receiving a
>     packet.  Linux, OpenBSD and our iwn(4) all do this.  It also results in
>     a huge performance improvement (and the rejection of a fair number of
>     apparently-bad packets on receive) on my hardware.
>  o) Like the wpi(4) driver in OpenBSD, and like our iwn(4), also drop runt
>     packets.
>  o) Don't bother doing IFQ_POLL and then IFQ_DRV_DEQUEUE, just do
>     IFQ_DRV_DEQUEUE outright.  This is more similar to how OpenBSD and our
>     iwn(4) work.

Do you plan to MFC this?

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