On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 11:53:36AM -0600, Chris Friesen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> >Either upgrade your kernel or backport the page-splitting code in the
> >current tree. That's really the only sane solution for jumbo packets.
>
> Looking at the page-splitting code, it says "82571 and greater support
> packet-split...". We're running the 82546GB device. Looks like it
> won't help me.
It definitely will.
Packet split in hardware means separating data and headers into
different pages in different reads, while software page split means that
skb has a list of fragments where part of the packet will be DMAed, so
jumbo frame will be converted into several pages.
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Evgeniy Polyakov
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