From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Cc: linux@syskonnect.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sk98lin, jumbo frames, and memory fragmentation
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:47:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47015CE0.3080706@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47015A24.7000701@nortel.com>
Chris Friesen wrote:
> We're considering some hardware that uses the sk98lin network hardware,
> and we'll be using jumbo frames. Looking at the driver, when using a
> 9KB MTU it seems like it would end up trying to atomically allocate a
> 16KB buffer.
The sk98lin driver is going away, please don't use it.
It's unmaintained and full of known bugs.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-01 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-01 20:35 sk98lin, jumbo frames, and memory fragmentation Chris Friesen
2007-10-01 20:44 ` John Heffner
2007-10-01 20:47 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-10-01 21:08 ` Chris Friesen
2007-10-01 21:06 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-01 21:15 ` Chris Friesen
2007-10-01 21:57 ` Stephen Hemminger
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