From owner-freebsd-net Fri Jul 5 7:42:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C00537B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 07:42:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tesla.distributel.net (unknown [66.38.181.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4D5543E31 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 07:42:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmilekic@unixdaemons.com) Received: (from bmilekic@localhost) by tesla.distributel.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g65EglD00539; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 10:42:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bmilekic@unixdaemons.com) Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 10:42:47 -0400 From: Bosko Milekic To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: "Kenneth D. Merry" , net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: virtually contig jumbo mbufs (was Re: new zero copy sockets snapshot) Message-ID: <20020705104247.A518@unixdaemons.com> References: <20020619233721.A30669@unixdaemons.com> <15633.62357.79381.405511@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20020620114511.A22413@unixdaemons.com> <15634.534.696063.241224@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20020620134723.A22954@unixdaemons.com> <15652.46870.463359.853754@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20020705002056.A5365@unixdaemons.com> <15653.35919.24295.698563@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20020705093435.A25047@unixdaemons.com> <15653.43437.658461.49860@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <15653.43437.658461.49860@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 10:14:05AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 10:14:05AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > I think this would be fine, But we'd need to know more about the > hardware limitations of the popular GiGE boards out there. We know > Tigon-II can handle 4 scatters, but are there any that can handle 3 > but not four? Why would you need 4? I can absolutely guarantee that a jumbo buf will not go over 3 pages (on i386, and 2 pages on alpha). > Drew Regards, -- Bosko Milekic bmilekic@unixdaemons.com bmilekic@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message