From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Cc: Ming Zhang <mingz@ele.uri.edu>,
E1000 <e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
iet-dev <iscsitarget-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Page Allocation Failure with e1000 using jumbo frame
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 19:02:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050819170248.GH3953@verdi.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.63.0508190940210.3796@jbrandeb-desk.amr.corp.intel.com>
> I guess we need to approach the memory manager guys and ask them why the
> current kernels are having so much trouble getting contiguous memory.
Because memory fragments.
The only long term reliable way is to not allocate buffers > PAGE_SIZE.
The stack supports paged skbs for that.
-Andi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-19 17:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2005-08-19 16:51 ` [E1000-devel] Page Allocation Failure with e1000 using jumbo frame Jesse Brandeburg
2005-08-19 17:01 ` Ming Zhang
2005-08-19 17:33 ` Page Allocation Failure with e1000 using jumboframe Jesse Brandeburg
2005-08-19 17:42 ` [E1000-devel] " Andi Kleen
2005-08-19 17:51 ` Jesse Brandeburg
2005-08-19 18:01 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-19 19:07 ` Ming Zhang
2005-08-19 21:10 ` Jesse Brandeburg
2005-08-19 17:52 ` Ming Zhang
2005-08-20 1:46 ` Michael Iatrou
2005-08-19 17:02 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-08-19 18:10 ` [E1000-devel] Page Allocation Failure with e1000 using jumbo frame Martin Josefsson
2005-08-19 17:03 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2005-08-20 1:43 ` [E1000-devel] " Michael Iatrou
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