On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:10:36 -0700 Auke Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wonder if we can't account for NET_IP_ALIGN when selecting bufsize, to get > at > rid of at least 1 order size before we netdev_alloc_skb. This should make 9k > frames only kmalloc(16384) and thus stay within the 16k boundary. I hope. > > Completely untested: don't commit :) > I did - I think we want this patch. > > e1000: account for NET_IP_ALIGN when calculating bufsiz > > Account for NET_IP_ALIGN when requesting buffer sizes from netdev_alloc_skb > to > reduce slab allocation by half. Could we please do whatever is needed to get this blessed and merged? This is such a common problem on such a common driver that I would suggest that we want this in 2.6.18.x as well. At least, I'd expect distributors to ship this fix (they're nuts if they don't) and so it makes sense to deliver it from kernel.org. - 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