On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> > As you eloquently state, there are a number of tradeoffs involved. On > a 64-bit platform, 99% of users are paying 40 bytes/pkt for something > that they will never use. On x86, 99.99% of users are paying 20 > bytes/pkt for a feature they will never use. At least a signifigant > fraction of nics make use of csum offloading (xl, ti, bge, em, myri). the downside to the TAG stuff is that you need to allocate a separate tag storage, and that is a malloc.. which has certain characteristics vs the mbuf allocator. We have a special allocator for mbufs for a reason. (I'm not sure how many of the original reasons still apply). so it's worth looking at whether malloc is a suitable method of allocating all that stuff before we take it out of the mbuf. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
