On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Bosko Milekic wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 11:00:56PM +0200, Juan Francisco Rodriguez Hervella wrote:
> > First of all, let me say that Im newbie with these topics,
> > I only know a bit about mbufs, but I dont understand how
> > can an application trim away the refcount if the size is
> > MCLBYTES = 2040 - sizeof(refcount).
> >
> > Don't this limit the room which an app. can write ?
>
> No. It just changes it. Also, it's not the application trimming away
> anything, and the size is not 2040, it's 2048. :-)
>
> FWIW, the application has no idea about mbufs or clusters. These are
> buffers and structures only the kernel knows about.
except if you are trying to use 0 copy semantics.
>
> > Thanks.
> >
> > JFRH
>
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