From: Pan Jiafei > In some platform, there are some hardware block provided > to manage buffers to improve performance. So in some case, > it is expected that the packets received by some generic > NIC should be put into such hardware managed buffers > directly, so that such buffer can be released by hardware > or by driver. This looks like some strange variant of 'buffer loaning'. In general it just doesn't work due to the limited number of such buffers - they soon all become queued waiting for applications to read from sockets. It also isn't at all clear how you expect a 'generic NIC' to actually allocate buffers from your 'special area'. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
