>
> What is really needed is something like
>
>
> buffer=vreserve(65536); /* Allocate 64K of address space */
>
> err=vfill(buffer, len, GFP_..); /* Put pages in where needed */
> if(err==-ENOMEM) /* No pages */
>
> vfree(buffer)
Hmm, doesn't this mean that every packet needs at least 4K (or 8K on alpha,
32K on ARM) of memory? Sounds like a waste for Ethernet with a 1.5K MTU.
Or do I miss something here?
-Andi