> Right. The other issue with jumbos frames (9000MTU) is that
> the allocation needed is just over 2 pages for 4K page size
> machines (common case). 3 page contig allocations tend to fail
> once a server is heavily loaded and memory gets fragmented.

That's just a driver bug. The driver should be splitting up the
buffers into page sized chunks. TX does that already, but
for RX the driver needs to do it.

-Andi
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