From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264791AbUHWPeF (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:34:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265060AbUHWPbl (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:31:41 -0400 Received: from imap.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:34502 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265098AbUHWP3U (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:29:20 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:29:19 +0200 (MEST) From: "Daniel Blueman" To: arjanv@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000 - Use vmalloc for data structures not shared X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Authenticated: #8973862 Message-ID: <15654.1093274959@www31.gmx.net> X-Mailer: WWW-Mail 1.6 (Global Message Exchange) X-Flags: 0001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? --- [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109006245518382&w=2 --- 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.... -- Daniel J Blueman Supergünstige DSL-Tarife + WLAN-Router für 0,- EUR* Jetzt zu GMX wechseln und sparen http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl