RE: [PATCH netdev-2.6 7/10] ixgb: Replace kmalloc with vmalloc to alloca

To:	"Jon Mason" <jdmason@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	RE: [PATCH netdev-2.6 7/10] ixgb: Replace kmalloc with vmalloc to allocate driver local data structures
From:	"Venkatesan, Ganesh" <ganesh.venkatesan@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Fri, 29 Oct 2004 08:35:21 -0700
Cc:	<jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>, "netdev" <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Thread-topic:	[PATCH netdev-2.6 7/10] ixgb: Replace kmalloc with vmalloc to allocate driver local data structures

>There seems to be 3 ways around this problem.
>1) change the unsigned long fields in ixgb_buffer to unsigned ints
(this
>decreases the size of the struct enough to use kmalloc)

PATCH netdev-2.6 6/10 does this.

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