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From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Subject: Re: jumbo frames and memory fragmentation
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:35:34 -0600
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To: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
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Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:

> It definitely will.
> Packet split in hardware means separating data and headers into
> different pages in different reads, while software page split means that 
> skb has a list of fragments where part of the packet will be DMAed, so
> jumbo frame will be converted into several pages.

Maybe I'm looking at the wrong code then.  Can you point me to where 
this "software page split" is handled?

Chris