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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.phadke@qlogic.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 20:14:01 -0700

>  
> 
>> 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?
> 
> "chained" LRO is not enabled by firmware. Contiguous LRO requires
> fewer commands (internal) from firmware to DMA engines.

But if the page allocator can't satisfy allocation requests
it doesn't matter how many microseconds you're saving here.

I think you're priorities are backwards.