From: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:30:20 +0800 > This way, device drivers can allocate the Rx buffers with their own size > and alignment requirement. i.e. do an order-1 page allocation directly > with free_pages() in the iwlagn driver for a 256 bytes aligned 8K Rx > buffer. After DMA is finished, drivers can use the above function to > assemble an skb based on the Rx buffer. It should resolve the problem > for requiring an order-2 allocation by alloc_skb() in the first place. You can create paged RX skbs just like drivers such as niu.c and others already do, there is no need for special APIs for this. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
