On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 14:16:53 +0100 Olivier Matz <olivier.m...@6wind.com> wrote:
> +**Implication**: > + In this situation, the shared data will be modified by the driver, > + potentially causing race conditions with the other users of the mbuf > + data. This is a driver bug! The driver must check for refcount and not modify mbuf's whose refcnt > 1. For those mbuf's it should copy the mbuf and modify the copy. It is not good to force buggy refcnt handling back onto the application. It is acceptable to document the performance impact.
