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From: Jan Killius <jkillius@arcor.de>
Subject: Re: r8169: page allocation failure
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:13:04 +0200
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On Sunday 17 October 2004 11:08, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 05:47:52PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > It should instead allocate a new skb of 1 mss.  I'll work on it.
>
> In fact it was allocating space that it wasn't even using :)
>
> The following patch makes it allocate skb_headlen(skb) - len instead
> of skb->len - len.  When skb is linear there is no difference.  When
> it's non-linear we only ever copy the bytes in the header.
>
> Please let me know whether this fixes your problem.
Yes the patch solved the problem completely
>
> Cheers,

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        Jan