<<On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 16:13:41 -0800 (PST), Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> (and anyhow Garrett got rid of the 'static' uses > of mbufs, not 'travelling' 'per packet' uses..) Only because I did not have the time or stomach then to introduce `struct packet' everywhere. All of the queueing and metadata crap should be pulled out of mbufs and put into a higher-level object. It's OK if the higher-level object HAS_A(mbuf), but not IS_A(mbuf). This is A Lot Of Work, but would seriously clean up the code in a number of areas. As a general rule, though, reentrancy was not a particular concern of the original design -- that's why there are queues and soft ISRs all over the place -- because you would blow the kernel stack long before that became an issue. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
