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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH NEXT 1/3] netxen: fix lro buffer allocation
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From: Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@netxen.com>
Date: Thu,  3 Sep 2009 16:10:53 -0700

> From: Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@qlogic.com>
> 
> Alloc 12k skbuffs so that firmware can aggregate more
> packets into one buffer. This doesn't raise memory
> consumption since 9k skbs use 16k slab cache anyway.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@netxen.com>

Applied.  But allocating such huge linear buffers is asking for
guarenteed trouble.  Can't you split them up into page sized chunks
with this chip?