Re: problems with e1000 and jumboframes

[Herbert Xu]

On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 01:58:46PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
>
> If you can create several skbs and link them togeter you defenitely can
> organize pages into frag_list, just get pages from different skb->data
> and free those skbs.

Having a more flexible mechanism for managing skb_shared_info->frags
would definitely be an improvement.  At the moment we can't indicate
whether the individual frags are writable so we assume every frag to
be read-only.

If we had a flag to indicate writability we could also have a flag to
indicate that the memory comes from kmalloc rather than alloc_page.

Cheers,
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