Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:08:17 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mbuf header bloat ? Message-ID: <200211212208.gALM8HTo067601@arch20m.dellroad.org> In-Reply-To: <20021121111709.A23435@xorpc.icir.org>
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Luigi Rizzo wrote: > Now that Sam has done the excellent work of integrating packet tags > to carry annotations around, i really believe that we should try > to move out of the pkthdr all non-general fields, and move them to > m_tags so we only pay the cost when needed and not in all cases. > Also this pays a lot in terms of ABI compatibility and extensibility. > I understand that for 5.0 it is a bit late to act, but i do hope > that we can reconsider this issue for 5.1 and pull out of the pkthdr > at least the MAC label, and possibly also the csum_* fields, much > in the same way it has been done for VLAN labels. You got my vote :-) -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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