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mac802154: Increase tx_buffer_len

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Increase the buffer length from 10 to 300 packets. Consider that traffic on
mac802154 devices will often be 6LoWPAN, and a full-length (1280 octet)
IPv6 packet will fragment into 15 6LoWPAN fragments (because the MTU of
IEEE 802.15.4 is 127).  A 300-packet queue is really 20 full-length IPv6
packets.

With a queue length of 10, an entire IPv6 packet was unable to get queued
at one time, causing fragments to be dropped, and making reassembly
impossible.

Signed-off-by: Alan Ott <alan@signal11.us>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Alan Ott 2013-04-03 04:00:57 +00:00 committed by David S. Miller
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commit e937f583ec
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@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ void mac802154_wpan_setup(struct net_device *dev)
dev->header_ops = &mac802154_header_ops;
dev->needed_tailroom = 2; /* FCS */
dev->mtu = IEEE802154_MTU;
dev->tx_queue_len = 10;
dev->tx_queue_len = 300;
dev->type = ARPHRD_IEEE802154;
dev->flags = IFF_NOARP | IFF_BROADCAST;
dev->watchdog_timeo = 0;