From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: reserving skbuffs for the drivers Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 14:03:46 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <3DB31A32.9020107@candelatech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: To: "'netdev@oss.sgi.com'" Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org I'm getting dropped rx packets because the network driver cannot allocate an skbuf in time, evidently.... I have 256MB of RAM, is there some way to increase the amount of RAM that the kernel keeps around for GFP_ATOMIC allocations? Documentation I find talks about buffermem and freepages, which looks hopeful, but they appear to no longer be in the proc file system as tunables??? Ben -- Ben Greear President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear