On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 02:00:28PM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 09:48, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > I will try to remove as many assumptions as possible.
> > thanks for the feedback.
>
> I think that in your prototype, the only assumption was in struct
> llentry. I would suggest defining it as something like:
to be really flexible, both l3_addr and ll_addr should be
variable size (v4,v6,v8 over 802.x,firewire,appletalk,snail-mail),
then things rapidly become confusing and inefficient.
I would like to keep the ipv4 over ethernet case simple and quick, even
if this means replicating the code for the generic case (and this
is one of the reasons i have stalled a bit on this code -- i want
to make up my mind on what is a reasonable approaxch).
cheers
luigi
> struct llentry {
> struct llentry *lle_next;
> struct mbuf *la_hold;
> uint16_t flags; /* see values in if_ether.h */
> uint8_t la_preempt;
> uint8_t la_asked;
> time_t expire;
> struct in_addr l3_addr;
> uint8_t ll_addr[0];
> };
>
> Where the allocation of them uses something like 'malloc(sizeof(struct
> llentry) + ifp->if_addrlen)'.
>
>
>
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