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ixgbe: Only use double buffering if page size is less than 8K
This change makes it so that we do not use double buffering if the page size is larger than 4K. Instead we will simply walk through the page using up to 3K per receive, and if we receive less than we only move the offset by that amount. We will free the page when there is no longer any space left that we can use instead of checking the page count to see if we can cycle back to the start. The main motivation behind this is to avoid the unnecessary truesize cost for using a half page when most packets are 2K or smaller. With this new approach the largest possible truesize for a page fragment will be 3K when PAGE_SIZE is larger than 4K. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
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