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Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:46:52 -0800
From: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@gmail.com>
To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@soleranetworks.com>
Subject: Re: e1000 82571 Packet Splitting
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this should be on netdev.

On 11/22/05, Jeff V. Merkey <jmerkey@soleranetworks.com> wrote:
>
> I have noted that the e1000 driver is now supporting DMA splitting of
> the packet header and payload into separate pages.  I also noticed
> that none of the config options enable it.  Is anyone using this feature
> at present and has it even been tested on Linux?

The 6.2.15 driver off http://prdownloads.sf.net/e1000 will enable it
by default.  We've gone through our release approval, which includes
quite a bit of testing.
If the patches posted recently don't include that support, I missed
something :-)

This is only on the 82571 and greater hardware that packet split is
supported, BTW.
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