[PATCH 3/3] mac80211: Set lower memory limit for non-VHT devices
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From: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <hidden>
Date: 2016-09-23 19:59:11
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linux-wireless
Subsystem:
mac80211, the rest · Maintainers:
Johannes Berg, Linus Torvalds
Small devices can run out of memory from queueing too many packets. If VHT is not supported by the PHY, having more than 4 MBytes of total queue in the TXQ intermediate queues is not needed, and so we can safely limit the memory usage in these cases and avoid OOM. Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <redacted> --- net/mac80211/tx.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
index 1ff08be..82f41fc 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c@@ -1434,6 +1434,8 @@ int ieee80211_txq_setup_flows(struct ieee80211_local *local) struct fq *fq = &local->fq; int ret; int i; + bool supp_vht = false; + enum nl80211_band band; if (!local->ops->wake_tx_queue) return 0;
@@ -1442,6 +1444,22 @@ int ieee80211_txq_setup_flows(struct ieee80211_local *local) if (ret) return ret; + /* + * If the hardware doesn't support VHT, it is safe to limit the maximum + * queue size. 4 Mbytes is 64 max-size aggregates in 802.11n. + */ + for (band = 0; band < NUM_NL80211_BANDS; band++) { + struct ieee80211_supported_band *sband; + + sband = local->hw.wiphy->bands[band]; + if (!sband) + continue; + + supp_vht = supp_vht || sband->vht_cap.vht_supported; + } + if (!supp_vht) + fq->memory_limit = 4 << 20; /* 4 Mbytes */ + codel_params_init(&local->cparams); local->cparams.interval = MS2TIME(100); local->cparams.target = MS2TIME(20);
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