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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