On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 09:41:30PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > From: "David S. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 21:39:22 -0800 (PST) > > > From: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 21:23:58 -0800 > > > > > What is "packet split" in this context? > > > > It's a mode of buffering used by the e1000 driver. > > BTW, the issue is that in packet split mode, the e1000 driver is > feeding paged based non-linear SKBs into the stack on receive which is > completely legal but aparently netpoll or something parsing netpoll RX > packets does not handle it properly.
The bug is in netpoll. It's non-linear ignorant. We probably can't call skb_linearize because it wants to kmalloc, but we probably can follow the fragment. Or, worst case, we can manually linearize into an SKB in our private pool. Can we make any assumptions about the size and position of fragments. For instance, will the first N data bytes of a UDP packet all be in the same fragment? -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - 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
