On Monday 28 February 2005 02:19 pm, Jeff Garzik wrote:

Random comment.

I think it's terribly cute that the max packet size is 8169.  Why not
represent that in decimal, as opposed to hexidecimal?

 Jeff

It actually random that it is 8169.  Jumbo Frames MTU in r8169 is dependent on 
the rx_buf_sz.  In the 8169 case, the rx_buf_sz is actually 8191 - (ETH_HDR + 
VLAN_HDR + CRC).  Any rx_buf_sz > 8191 is split up into multiple descriptors, 
which is proving to be a bit tricky.

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Jon Mason
jdmason@us.ibm.com