> Ahh, okay. I'm pretty sure that SuSE did some changes (not sure what) to > memory management.
I don't think so. > > the formula for the size that the current e1000 looks for is something > like > > a = MTU roundup to next power of 2 > a += 2 (skb_reserve(NET_IP_ALIGN)) > a += 16 (skb_reserve 16 by __dev_alloc_skb) > > so, a = 2048 + 2 + 16, or 2066 > request (a) from slab, which does a power of 2 roundup > so the skb comes from the 4k (single page) slab for standard mtu. That's very suboptimal because you're wasting nearly 2k. It would be better if you allocated 4k or exactly 2k -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
