David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know if I want to eat an entire extra allocation for every SKB > just to handle broken e1000 cards that can't be bothered to support > non-power-of-2 receive buffer sizes and a proper MTU setting. > > I guess we might have to, but this is extremely unfortunate. :-/
I'd hope not. Apparently they are capable of putting data into individual pages and chaining them together. The only problem is that half a page is wasted for 1500-byte packets. However, allocating 16KB packets would waste even more memory if only 1500 bytes end up getting used. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - 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
