linux-kernel - Re: problems with e1000 and jumboframes

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Date:	Fri, 04 Aug 2006 15:59:37 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	chris.leech@...il.com (Chris Leech)
Cc:	arnd@...dnet.de, johnpol@....mipt.ru, olel@....pl,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: problems with e1000 and jumboframes

Chris Leech <chris.leech@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> We could try and only use page allocations for older e1000 devices,
> putting headers and payload into skb->frags and copying the headers
> out into the skb->data area as needed for processing.  That would do
> away with large allocations, but in Jesse's experiments calling
> alloc_page() is slower than kmalloc(), so there can actually be a
> performance hit from trying to use page allocations all the time.

Interesting.  Could you guys post figures on alloc_page speed vs. kmalloc?

Also, getting memory slower is better than not getting them at all :)
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