Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: kernel > 2.1.36 & nfs | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 03 Jun 1997 13:32:08 +0200 |
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alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes:
> > What is really needed is something like > > > buffer=vreserve(65536); /* Allocate 64K of address space */ > > err=vfill(buffer, len, GFP_..); /* Put pages in where needed */ > if(err==-ENOMEM) /* No pages */ > > vfree(buffer)
Hmm, doesn't this mean that every packet needs at least 4K (or 8K on alpha, 32K on ARM) of memory? Sounds like a waste for Ethernet with a 1.5K MTU.
Or do I miss something here?
-Andi
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