Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] myri10ge: use physical pages for skb allocation

From: Brice Goglin <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:40:11 +0100

Hi Jeff,

It looks like you didn't apply this patch to #upstream for 2.6.20 so far. We would really like to get ith in 2.6.20 (we already missed 2.6.19 by a couple days :)). But, I guess we need some testing in -mm first, so...

thanks,
Brice

Brice Goglin wrote:
> Physical pages are used instead of 16kB contiguous buffers for the
> skb frags. And we also put as much fragments as possible in any page
> so that we do not have to allocate a page for every fragments.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew J. Gallatin <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  drivers/net/myri10ge/myri10ge.c |  499 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>  1 file changed, 254 insertions(+), 245 deletions(-)
>