From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] avoid unnecessary alignement overhead in skb->data allocation.
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 11:24:23 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060807072423.GA2078@2ka.mipt.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1G9zMP-0001MO-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 05:17:13PM +1000, Herbert Xu (herbert@gondor.apana.org.au) wrote:
> David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> >
> > I don't know if I want to eat an entire extra allocation for every SKB
> > just to handle broken e1000 cards that can't be bothered to support
> > non-power-of-2 receive buffer sizes and a proper MTU setting.
> >
> > I guess we might have to, but this is extremely unfortunate. :-/
>
> I'd hope not. Apparently they are capable of putting data into
> individual pages and chaining them together. The only problem
Unfortunately not all chips are capable to do this.
--
Evgeniy Polyakov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-07 7:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-07 6:01 [RFC] avoid unnecessary alignement overhead in skb->data allocation Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-07 6:23 ` David Miller
2006-08-07 6:30 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-07 7:17 ` Herbert Xu
2006-08-07 7:24 ` Evgeniy Polyakov [this message]
2006-08-07 7:28 ` Herbert Xu
2006-08-07 7:31 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-07 7:39 ` Herbert Xu
2006-08-08 0:09 ` Jesse Brandeburg
2006-08-08 0:41 ` David Miller
2006-08-08 5:24 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-08 5:41 ` Herbert Xu
2006-08-08 5:55 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-07 6:29 ` Herbert Xu
2006-08-07 6:36 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-07 6:42 ` Herbert Xu
2006-08-07 8:05 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-08-07 8:14 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
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