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On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 11:16:23AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>
> OK, so how many adjacent physical pages is a scatterlist entry
> permitted to cover? Unbounded?

Well the network stack is limited by packet size so it's less than
64K for practical purposes.  However, the API itself doesn't specify
a limit as such.

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