On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 02:20:51PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 06:50:28PM -0700, David Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > > Stephen Rothwell pointed out to me that the skb_frag_struct > > is broken on platforms using 64K or larger page sizes, it > > even generates warnings when (for example) the myri10ge driver > > tries to assign PAGE_SIZE into frag->size. > > > > I've thus increased page offset and size to __u32 in the patch below. > > Maybe wrap it into > #if PAGE_OFFSET > 12 > #endif > > or something like that? > > I'm not sure actually why drivers would want to have list of 64k pages, > instead driver could call give_me_pages(size) instead of alloc_pages > and per-arch allocator would return one page or set of pages. This is a > handwaving for now...
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