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From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
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Subject: Re: virtually contig jumbo mbufs (was Re: new zero copy sockets snapshot)
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In article <20020705132735.A873@unixdaemons.com>,
Bosko Milekic  <bmilekic@unixdaemons.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 09:45:01AM -0700, John Polstra wrote:
> > The BCM570x chips (bge driver) definitely need a single physically
> > contiguous buffer for each received packet.
> 
>   This is totally ridiculous for gigE hardware, IMO.

WHOOPS, I'm afraid I have to correct myself.  The BCM570x chips do
indeed support multiple buffers for jumbo packets.  I'm sorry for the
earlier misinformation!

John
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  John Polstra
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