Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:28:50 +0100
From: Chris Vine <chris@cvine.freeserve.co.uk>
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Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
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	Michael =?ISO-8859-1?B?QvxzY2g=?= <mb@bu3sch.de>,
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Subject: Re: b43 error under heavy load
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On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 20:10:44 +0200
Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/6/1 Chris Vine <chris@cvine.freeserve.co.uk>:
> > On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 20:03:56 +0200
> > Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 2011/6/1 Chris Vine <chris@cvine.freeserve.co.uk>:
> >> > The one which failed caused the cessation of
> >> > wireless traffic, and was accompanied by the debug log reports of
> >> > out of order TX status earlier referred to, and with only one
> >> > single report
> >>
> >> As I said, I don't really suspect any relation between full TX ring
> >> and out of order problems anymore.
> >>
> >> But it won't hurt to ask just in case:
> >> Did you see relation between this single "Stopped TX ring 1" and
> >> massive out of order messages? Did out of order messages starter
> >> right after "Stopped TX ring 1" one?
> >
> > The "Stopped TX ring 1" message was near the end (but not at the
> > end) of the out of order messages. It was definitely not at the
> > beginning of the out of order messages.
> 
> Thanks. That confirmed for me, there is no relation.

I have tested with the newer firmware (from broadcom-wl-5.10.56.27.3),
and I get the same failure with "Out of order TX status report on DMA
ring 1" after transferring about 380MB of data at full speed.

Chris