On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Julian Elischer wrote:
On 9/30/10 10:49 AM, Ryan Stone wrote:
It's not a big thing but it would be nice to replace the m_next and
m_nextpkt fields with queue.h macros.
funny, I've never even thought of that..
I have, and it's a massive change touching code all over the kernel in vast
quantities. While in principle it's a good idea (consistently avoid
hand-crafted linked lists), it's something I'd discourage on the basis that it
probably won't significant reduce the kernel bug count, but will make it even
harder for vendors with large local changes to the network stack to keep up.
(We might consider revisiting the proposal for 10.0, perhaps? I'd rather we
burnt the cycles on fleshing out network stack virtualization more thoroughly
for 9.x though.)
Robert
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