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Date:      Fri, 5 Jul 2002 10:42:47 -0400
From:      Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@unixdaemons.com>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>, net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: virtually contig jumbo mbufs (was Re: new zero copy sockets snapshot)
Message-ID:  <20020705104247.A518@unixdaemons.com>
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
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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


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