From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 27 13:09:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA27604 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 13:09:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA27587 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 13:09:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA01087; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 13:07:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807272007.NAA01087@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Garrett Wollman cc: Julian Elischer , Luigi Rizzo , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP kernels... how many processes can be in ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 27 Jul 1998 15:57:43 EDT." <199807271957.PAA14638@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 13:07:05 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > < said: > > > 2/ sticking some 'MT_RIGHTS' or > > 'MT_CONTROL' mbufs can be added on the head or end of the packet, and used > > to hold this info. (encoded like tcp options.. 1 byte type, 1 byte len, > > data.) > > Gross! Please don't do this! We have too much code that depends on > mbuf chaining as it is! Ok, so we know what's "bad". Any suggestions on "less bad"? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message