Merge branch 'davem-next' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik...

[safe/jmp/linux-2.6] / Documentation / networking / packet_mmap.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt
index d1c5a48..db0cd51 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ You can find the latest version of this document at
 
 Please send me your comments to
 
-    Ulisses Alonso Camaró <uaca@i.hate.spam.alumni.uv.es>
+    Ulisses Alonso Camaró <uaca@i.hate.spam.alumni.uv.es>
 
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 + Why use PACKET_MMAP
@@ -215,8 +215,8 @@ called pg_vec, its size limits the number of blocks that can be allocated.
      block #1
 
 
-kmalloc allocates any number of bytes of phisically contiguous memory from 
-a pool of pre-determined sizes. This pool of memory is mantained by the slab 
+kmalloc allocates any number of bytes of physically contiguous memory from 
+a pool of pre-determined sizes. This pool of memory is maintained by the slab 
 allocator which is at the end the responsible for doing the allocation and 
 hence which imposes the maximum memory that kmalloc can allocate. 
 
@@ -278,13 +278,13 @@ an i386 kernel's memory size is limited to 1GiB.
 All memory allocations are not freed until the socket is closed. The memory 
 allocations are done with GFP_KERNEL priority, this basically means that 
 the allocation can wait and swap other process' memory in order to allocate 
-the nececessary memory, so normally limits can be reached.
+the necessary memory, so normally limits can be reached.
 
  Other constraints
 -------------------
 
 If you check the source code you will see that what I draw here as a frame
-is not only the link level frame. At the begining of each frame there is a 
+is not only the link level frame. At the beginning of each frame there is a 
 header called struct tpacket_hdr used in PACKET_MMAP to hold link level's frame
 meta information like timestamp. So what we draw here a frame it's really 
 the following (from include/linux/if_packet.h):