| To: | "Jon Mason" <jdmason@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| 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> |
| Sender: | netdev-bounce@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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