From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brice Goglin Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] myri10ge: use physical pages for skb allocation Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:40:11 +0100 Message-ID: <455B974B.9070302@myri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from h-66-166-126-70.lsanca54.covad.net ([66.166.126.70]:56992 "EHLO myri.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1162023AbWKOWli (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:41:38 -0500 To: Jeff Garzik Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hi Jeff, It looks like you didn't apply this patch to #upstream for 2.6.20 so far. We would really like to get ith in 2.6.20 (we already missed 2.6.19 by a couple days :)). But, I guess we need some testing in -mm first, so... thanks, Brice Brice Goglin wrote: > Physical pages are used instead of 16kB contiguous buffers for the > skb frags. And we also put as much fragments as possible in any page > so that we do not have to allocate a page for every fragments. > > Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin > Signed-off-by: Andrew J. Gallatin > --- > drivers/net/myri10ge/myri10ge.c | 499 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- > 1 file changed, 254 insertions(+), 245 deletions(-) >