From: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 10:39:25 +0100

> The problem is that there can be a quite long per CPU queue already 
> before lookup - and without copybreak a lot of memory might 
> be wasted in there.

There is no queue, we go straight from driver RX handling
all the way into the stack with NAPI.

For non-NAPI, yeah it could be an issue, and I guess we
can advocate in-driver copybreak for non-NAPI drivers.
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