From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Fw: b44 ifconfig fails with ENOMEM
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 14:20:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050104142026.000be2e8.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050103191836.57f918e5.akpm@osdl.org>
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 19:18:36 -0800
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> b44 requires an order-8 allocation? Good luck...
Yes, it allocates a full TX ring worth of bounce buffers
to work around a DMA addressing limitation. It should do
a bunch of smaller consistent allocations instead of one
huge one, that's for sure.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-04 22:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-04 3:18 Fw: b44 ifconfig fails with ENOMEM Andrew Morton
2005-01-04 22:20 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2005-01-07 22:02 ` Pekka Pietikainen
2005-01-21 0:32 ` Pekka Pietikainen
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