Re: problems with e1000 and jumboframes

[Herbert Xu]

On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 02:24:36PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
>
> > If we had a flag to indicate writability we could also have a flag to
> > indicate that the memory comes from kmalloc rather than alloc_page.
> 
> Yes, that would be good, but who will give us a bit in the struct page?
> Can we recreate frag_list elements to be a bitmasks and steal couple
> of them there, so we would not increase fragment's structure size?

I wasn't thinking of a bit in struct page, but rather a bit in skb_frag_t.

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