Subject: Re: [RFC] avoid unnecessary alignement overhead in skb->data allocation.

From: Evgeniy Polyakov <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 11:31:03 +0400

On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 05:28:16PM +1000, Herbert Xu ([email-masked]) wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 11:24:23AM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> >
> > > I'd hope not.  Apparently they are capable of putting data into
> > > individual pages and chaining them together.  The only problem
> > 
> > Unfortunately not all chips are capable to do this.
> 
> No not all chips are capable of header-splitting.  However, from what
> Jesse was saying it sounded as if all (or most?) chips are capable of
> storing data cross pages.

Only if they form contiguous region?
Jesse, is it possible for every e1000 chip to split frame into several
page-sized chunks i.e. create some kind of receiving scatter-gather?

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