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reserving skbuffs for the drivers

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Subject: reserving skbuffs for the drivers
From: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 14:03:46 -0700
Organization: Candela Technologies
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I'm getting dropped rx packets because the network
driver cannot allocate an skbuf in time, evidently....

I have 256MB of RAM, is there some way to increase the amount of RAM
that the kernel keeps around for GFP_ATOMIC allocations?

Documentation I find talks about buffermem and freepages, which looks
hopeful, but they appear to no longer be in the proc file system as
tunables???

Ben

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