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Re: copybreak and gige network drivers

To: Donald Becker <becker@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: copybreak and gige network drivers
From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 10:39:11 -0400
Cc: davem@xxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Donald Becker wrote:

The decision point is pretty much break-even in the range of 150-400
bytes, and most packets are either smaller or much larger, so just pick
a likely value.  I tried to look at the bin sizes for the skbuff
allocator, but you'll find that the overhead changes faster than you can
possibly track.

Okay, will do. Thanks for the excellent explanation.

Chris

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