From aed7d9ac1836defe033b561f4306e39014ac56fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Emmanuel Grumbach Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:33:00 +0200 Subject: iwlwifi: disable 8K A-MSDU by default Supporting 8K A-MSDU means that we need to allocate order 1 pages for every Rx packet. Even when there is no traffic. This adds stress on the memory manager. The handling of compound pages is also less trivial for the memory manager and not using them will make the allocation code run faster although I didn't really measure. Eric also pointed out that having huge buffers with little data in them is not very nice towards the TCP stack since the truesize of the skb is huge. This doesn't allow TCP to have a big Rx window. See https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2167711/ for details. Note that very few vendors will actually send A-MSDU. Disable this feature by default. Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg --- drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c') diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c index 6f228bb2b844..fbfd2d137117 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c @@ -1102,7 +1102,6 @@ void iwl_drv_stop(struct iwl_drv *drv) /* shared module parameters */ struct iwl_mod_params iwlwifi_mod_params = { - .amsdu_size_8K = 1, .restart_fw = 1, .plcp_check = true, .bt_coex_active = true, @@ -1207,7 +1206,7 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(11n_disable, "disable 11n functionality, bitmap: 1: full, 2: agg TX, 4: agg RX"); module_param_named(amsdu_size_8K, iwlwifi_mod_params.amsdu_size_8K, int, S_IRUGO); -MODULE_PARM_DESC(amsdu_size_8K, "enable 8K amsdu size"); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(amsdu_size_8K, "enable 8K amsdu size (default 0)"); module_param_named(fw_restart, iwlwifi_mod_params.restart_fw, int, S_IRUGO); MODULE_PARM_DESC(fw_restart, "restart firmware in case of error"); -- cgit v1.2.1