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RE: [Xen-devel] DMA trouble with current xen-sparse

To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] DMA trouble with current xen-sparse
From: "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 23:03:16 -0000
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> from 1 to 0 in mm/slab.c.  But that's just going to waste more slab
> cache space for many caches.   Without that change, the fact 
> is that an
> important debugging option is creating cross-page objects 
> routinely, and that the slab allocator can create such 
> objects quite normally even without that option; so it may 
> end up being something that Xen just has to deal with.

The best xen fix for this is for us to hook alloc_skb (rather than just
dev_alloc_skb). This will enable us to solve the jumbo frames issue too.

Ian 

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