Use of contiguous physical memory in cxgbe driver
Garrett Wollman
wollman at freebsd.org
Wed Jan 22 23:52:03 UTC 2014
At this point everyone is well aware that requiring contiguous
physical page when the hardware can do scatter-gather is a very bad
idea. I have a new server under test (running 9.2) which uses Chelsio
rather than Intel 10G Ethernet controllers. We fixed the Intel driver
not to use more-than-page-sized jumbo mbufs. Can anyone say with
certainty whether the Chelsio hardware actually requires
physically-contiguous allocations for jumbo frames? Has this already
been fixed in a more recent driver? (The hardware is identified
specifically as a T420-CR.)
-GAWollman
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