Re: Memory allocation in Linux (fwd)

[ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)]

"Amit S. Jain" <amitjain@tifr.res.in> writes:

> You cannot pass address returned from vmalloc to hardware: vmalloc returns
> > a virtual mapping of memory.
> >
> >               -ben
> 
> 
>  Thanks Ben,
> 
> So wass the solution for this.....??

Call get_free_pages explicitly use the scatter gather support
in the network layer.  You should be able to pass a linked
list of pages.

Eric
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