From: Chris Rankin <rankincj@yahoo.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: JesseBrandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
"e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net"
<e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Tushar NDave <tushar.n.dave@intel.com>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Jeffrey TKirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Subject: RE: [E1000-devel] [e100] Page allocation failure warning(?) in 2.6.36.3
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:00:35 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <895344.13845.qm@web121707.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1294894536.3335.510.camel@edumazet-laptop>
--- On Thu, 13/1/11, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
> Problem is e100 allocates an order-6 page in DMA zone
> (a 256 KB contigous area of ram)
>
> This contigous area of ram is not available but just after
> booting...
I suspected as much. Fortunately, this machine has no function apart from routing and can happily left untouched for extended periods of time.
> On such small router, I doubt you need more than 64 slots
> in TX ring buffer.
But what would the effect of that change be to the interfaces' performance, please?
Cheers,
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-13 9:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-08 12:53 [e100] Page allocation failure warning(?) in 2.6.36.3 Chris Rankin
2011-01-10 23:11 ` [E1000-devel] " Dave, Tushar N
2011-01-10 23:41 ` Chris Rankin
2011-01-11 0:37 ` Dave, Tushar N
2011-01-11 8:52 ` [E1000-devel] " Chris Rankin
2011-01-11 20:59 ` Chris Rankin
2011-01-12 17:35 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-12 17:42 ` [E1000-devel] " Chris Rankin
2011-01-12 17:48 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-12 18:05 ` Brandeburg, Jesse
2011-01-12 18:14 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-12 23:27 ` Chris Rankin
2011-01-13 4:55 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-13 9:00 ` Chris Rankin [this message]
2011-01-13 9:05 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-13 9:24 ` Chris Rankin
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