2020-04-25 11:16:51

by Sven Eckelmann

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath10k: increase rx buffer size to 2048

On Wednesday, 1 April 2020 09:00:49 CEST Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> On Wednesday, 5 February 2020 20:10:43 CEST Linus L?ssing wrote:
> > From: Linus L?ssing <[email protected]>
> >
> > Before, only frames with a maximum size of 1528 bytes could be
> > transmitted between two 802.11s nodes.
> >
> > For batman-adv for instance, which adds its own header to each frame,
> > we typically need an MTU of at least 1532 bytes to be able to transmit
> > without fragmentation.
> >
> > This patch now increases the maxmimum frame size from 1528 to 1656
> > bytes.
> [...]
>
> @Kalle, I saw that this patch was marked as deferred [1] but I couldn't find
> any mail why it was done so. It seems like this currently creates real world
> problems - so would be nice if you could explain shortly what is currently
> blocking its acceptance.

Ping?

Kind regards,
Sven

> [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11367055/


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