From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: ron.mercer@qlogic.com
Cc: matthew@wil.cx, grundler@parisc-linux.org,
linux-driver@qlogic.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.27-rc9 QGLE make unsupported page size explicit
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:56:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081013.225614.55382681.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081014025329.GA25397@susedev.qlogic.org>
From: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:53:29 -0700
> My explanation might not have been very good. What I was trying to say
> is that the macro in question determines the size of a scatter/gathter
> list that is external to the TX descriptor. The size is based on
> MAX_SKB_FRAGS and PAGE_SIZE. When PAGE_SIZE is larger than 8k I don't
> need the external scatter/gather list because all frags will fit in the
> native TX descriptor.
Yes, it all makes sense now, thanks Ron.
Patch applied.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-14 5:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-13 6:06 [PATCH] 2.6.27-rc9 QGLE make unsupported page size explicit Grant Grundler
2008-10-13 6:09 ` David Miller
2008-10-14 1:54 ` [PATCH] 2.6.27-rc9 QGLE make unsupported page size explicit compile failure Ron Mercer
2008-10-14 2:03 ` [PATCH] 2.6.27-rc9 QGLE make unsupported page size explicit David Miller
2008-10-14 2:19 ` [PATCH] 2.6.27-rc9 QGLE make unsupported page size explicit compile failure Matthew Wilcox
2008-10-14 2:31 ` [PATCH] 2.6.27-rc9 QGLE make unsupported page size explicit David Miller
2008-10-14 2:53 ` [PATCH] 2.6.27-rc9 QGLE make unsupported page size explicit compile failure Ron Mercer
2008-10-14 5:56 ` David Miller [this message]
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