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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
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Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 18:28:21 -0700 (PDT)
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From: "Leonid Grossman" <leonid.grossman@neterion.com>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 18:25:35 -0700

> Yes, I think I'm actually with you. As long as each page is physically
> continuous and therefore requires one descriptor per page, the total
> number of descriptors per packet will be only 64K / PAGE_SIZE (plus
> some for headers), and this is fully manageable from a NIC
> prospective.

Yes, that is exactly what happens.