netdev - RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 5/6] xen-netback: coalesce slots before copying

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Message-ID: <6035A0D088A63A46850C3988ED045A4B3880B43D@BITCOM1.int.sbss.com.au>
Date:	Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:52:56 +0000
From:	James Harper <james.harper@...digoit.com.au>
To:	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
CC:	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>,
	"konrad.wilk@...cle.com" <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Wei Liu <liuw@...w.name>,
	"xen-devel@...ts.xen.org" <xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>,
	"annie.li@...cle.com" <annie.li@...cle.com>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 5/6] xen-netback: coalesce slots before
 copying

> > It's not clear why 19 or 20 were suggested as possible values.  I
> > checked back to 2.6.18 and MAX_SKB_FRAGS there is (65536/PAGE_SIZE +
> 2)
> 
> Because the check is >= MAX_SKB_FRAGS originally and James Harper told
> me that "Windows stops counting on 20".
> 

I've obviously not been clear enough here... GPLPV stopped counting at 20 (only needed to know if <20 or not). Windows itself can submit a packet to NDIS with hundreds of buffers. It doesn't really matter if it's 21 or 1021, I just didn't want to be misquoted.

James
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