Re: problems with e1000 and jumboframes

From: Evgeniy Polyakov
Date: Thu Aug 03 2006 - 11:21:52 EST


On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 05:08:51PM +0200, Krzysztof Oledzki (olel@xxxxxx) wrote:
> >then skb_alloc adds a little
> >(sizeof(struct skb_shared_info)) at the end, and this ends up
> >in 32k request just for 9k jumbo frame.
>
> Strange, why this skb_shared_info cannon be added before first alignment?
> And what about smaller frames like 1500, does this driver behave similar
> (first align then add)?

e1000 aligns it to 2k, which will be transformed into 4k allocation.

> Best regards,
>
> Krzysztof OlÄdzki


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Evgeniy Polyakov
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