[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH/RFC] IPoIB: Allocate priv->tx_ring with vmalloc()

Eli Cohen eli at dev.mellanox.co.il
Thu Mar 13 03:07:57 PDT 2008


On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 12:00 +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> I am not following you. With the connected mode not advertising SG 
> support to the stack and exposing 64K MTU, the stack is forced to 
> provide upto 64K sized linear SKBs, this is how it goes from the CM's 
> day one, no?
> 
Correct. I was just thinking ahead if we ever want to advertise
NETIF_F_SG for CM to make it easier for the networking stack to
allocated such buffers.




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