From: "Daniel Blueman" <daniel.blueman@gmx.net>
To: arjanv@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000 - Use vmalloc for data structures not shared
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:29:19 +0200 (MEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15654.1093274959@www31.gmx.net> (raw)
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When you bring an e1000 interface up with a large MTU value (eg 3000 or
9000), we were seeing allocation failures [1].
Perhaps this is relevant here?
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http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109006245518382&w=2
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On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 18:01, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> ChangeSet 1.1807.39.3, 2004/07/29 12:01:46-04:00, ganesh.venkatesan@intel
.com
>
> [PATCH] e1000 - Use vmalloc for data structures not shared
eh why? You are aware that vmalloc'd datastructures are slower during
use (due to TLB overhead) right ?
These structures also don't look THAT big on first sight....
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