Do you mean why did the original BSD people choose the methos used in
the mbuf code in 1982 (or whenever)?
1/ copying data is a waste of time
2/ incoming packets are of unpredictable size
but tend to be either full-size or small with few in between.
3/ memory was expensive and slow
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My question is why did you choose mbuf?
> is it because you are writing the code in unix systems?
> Is it because mbufs allow us to avoid coping as much as possible?
>
> I feel that a linear buffer might have saved some of the mbuf
> modifications.
>
> regards
> ravi prasad
>
>
>
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