Jesse Brandeburg wrote: > On 8/24/06, Brice Goglin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> During the submission of the myri10ge driver, some people raised the >> question of using pages (or any kind of non-contiguous skb) instead of >> our current 16kB contiguous skb. We are looking at this right now and it >> is not clear what solution is the best. From what we understand, Linux >> provides two mostly redundant mechanisms to handle discontinuous skb, >> the skb->frags and the skb->frag_list, s2io using the latter while e1000 >> uses the former. Is one or the other recommended? What is the purpose of >> having them both in the net core? > > you really only have one option, to use PAGE_SIZE pages and frags[] > w/nr_frags. e1000 tried the frag_list option but that is used by ip > reassembly and badly conflicts with driver generated frag_list.
Ok, thanks for the clarification, we'll use frags then. Is s2io going to be converted from frag_list to frags then? Brice - 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
