From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: akpm@osdl.org
Cc: auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com, Holger.Kiehl@dwd.de,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, john.ronciak@intel.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.1[78] page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:25:07 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060922.222507.74751476.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060922215000.c1fde093.akpm@osdl.org>
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 21:50:00 -0700
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:10:36 -0700
> Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com> wrote:
>
> > e1000: account for NET_IP_ALIGN when calculating bufsiz
> >
> > Account for NET_IP_ALIGN when requesting buffer sizes from netdev_alloc_skb to
> > reduce slab allocation by half.
>
> Could we please do whatever is needed to get this blessed and merged? This
> is such a common problem on such a common driver that I would suggest that
> we want this in 2.6.18.x as well. At least, I'd expect distributors to
> ship this fix (they're nuts if they don't) and so it makes sense to deliver
> it from kernel.org.
The NET_IP_ALIGN existed not just for fun :) There are ramifications
for removing it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-23 5:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609220655550.13396@diagnostix.dwd.de>
2006-09-22 7:42 ` 2.6.1[78] page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20 Andrew Morton
2006-09-22 12:03 ` Holger Kiehl
2006-09-22 12:12 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-09-22 17:10 ` Auke Kok
2006-09-23 4:50 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-23 5:25 ` David Miller [this message]
2006-09-23 5:33 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-23 18:50 ` Auke Kok
2006-09-23 20:03 ` David Miller
2006-09-24 15:26 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-09-24 21:15 ` Auke Kok
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