UNS: Re: Limits on jumbo mbuf cluster allocation

Garrett Wollman wollman at freebsd.org
Fri Mar 8 20:28:13 UTC 2013


<<On Fri, 8 Mar 2013 12:13:28 -0800, Jack Vogel <jfvogel at gmail.com> said:

> Yes, in the past the code was in this form, it should work fine Garrett,
> just make sure
> the 4K pool is large enough.

I take it then that the hardware works in the traditional way, and
just keeps on using buffers until the packet is completely written,
then sets a field on the ring descriptor saying "the end of the packet
is HERE"?

I'll give that change a try when I get a chance.

-GAWollman



More information about the freebsd-net mailing list