> Right. The other issue with jumbos frames (9000MTU) is that > the allocation needed is just over 2 pages for 4K page size > machines (common case). 3 page contig allocations tend to fail > once a server is heavily loaded and memory gets fragmented.
That's just a driver bug. The driver should be splitting up the buffers into page sized chunks. TX does that already, but for RX the driver needs to do it. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html