Regarding skb and skb_frags

Pranay Srivastava pranjas at gmail.com
Thu May 1 10:09:48 EDT 2014


On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 7:29 PM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 01 May 2014 16:12:43 +0530, Pranay Srivastava said:
>
>> My question is that an Ethernet frame won't be bigger than 1500 bytes
>> [correct?]
>
> Incorrect.  10G and faster ethernet support jumbograms.  We run our HPC 10G
> network with an MTU of 9000 (which is 2 pages and a bit more).
>
Ok. So in any case the driver won't poke past ethernet header to look
for the size [Correct?].
So it means only when MTU is bigger than page size would there be a
possibility of skb_frags [Correct?].
>

Thanks

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        ---P.K.S



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