From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Evgeniy Polyakov Subject: Re: [RFC] avoid unnecessary alignement overhead in skb->data allocation. Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 11:24:23 +0400 Message-ID: <20060807072423.GA2078@2ka.mipt.ru> References: <20060806.232339.30184217.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Cc: David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from relay.2ka.mipt.ru ([194.85.82.65]:388 "EHLO 2ka.mipt.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751123AbWHGHYn (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2006 03:24:43 -0400 To: Herbert Xu Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 05:17:13PM +1000, Herbert Xu (herbert@gondor.apana.org.au) wrote: > David Miller 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