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authorIvo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>2010-06-14 22:13:37 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2010-06-15 16:02:20 -0400
commite6474c3c6d4839c73f363a0f44a347d804534758 (patch)
treefece688bbb2d95a9c785ae175125b96d2b7c102e /drivers
parentrt2x00: Update author rt2800lib (diff)
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rt2x00: Limit TX done looping to number of TX ring entries
Similar to rt2800pci, remove the check for duplicate register reading, and instead limit the for-loop to the maximum number of TX entries inside a queue. Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c23
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c
index d1270118f7d3..7ca383478eeb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c
@@ -2052,29 +2052,24 @@ static void rt61pci_txdone(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev)
struct txdone_entry_desc txdesc;
u32 word;
u32 reg;
- u32 old_reg;
int type;
int index;
+ int i;
/*
- * During each loop we will compare the freshly read
- * STA_CSR4 register value with the value read from
- * the previous loop. If the 2 values are equal then
- * we should stop processing because the chance is
- * quite big that the device has been unplugged and
- * we risk going into an endless loop.
+ * TX_STA_FIFO is a stack of X entries, hence read TX_STA_FIFO
+ * at most X times and also stop processing once the TX_STA_FIFO_VALID
+ * flag is not set anymore.
+ *
+ * The legacy drivers use X=TX_RING_SIZE but state in a comment
+ * that the TX_STA_FIFO stack has a size of 16. We stick to our
+ * tx ring size for now.
*/
- old_reg = 0;
-
- while (1) {
+ for (i = 0; i < TX_ENTRIES; i++) {
rt2x00pci_register_read(rt2x00dev, STA_CSR4, &reg);
if (!rt2x00_get_field32(reg, STA_CSR4_VALID))
break;
- if (old_reg == reg)
- break;
- old_reg = reg;
-
/*
* Skip this entry when it contains an invalid
* queue identication number.