Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:19:16 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@freebsd.org> To: Kip Macy <kmacy@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r191255 - in head/sys: amd64/conf conf i386/conf net Message-ID: <4A2E9994.7070907@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <3c1674c90906091012u26b0e823q57a7ea1f42eef22d@mail.gmail.com> References: <200904190016.n3J0G4rA090911@svn.freebsd.org> <20090609143729.R22887@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> <3c1674c90906091012u26b0e823q57a7ea1f42eef22d@mail.gmail.com>
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Kip Macy wrote:
>> I think FLOWTABLE does nto belong into DEFAULTS. Really DEFAULTS was
>> meant for "You cannot boot without this" and if people start to weaken
>> it, DEFAULTS will soon be the new GENERIC. That said I am not sure it
>> belongs to GENERIC either.
>>
>
> I can either push it in to GENERIC or I can change it to NOFLOWTABLE.
> If you want to remove it from GENERIC then we're going to have to have
> a lengthy discussion about what most FreeBSD users actually use and
> gut GENERIC as it stands now. The fact is, most FreeBSD users have
> sufficiently few peers that flowtable is a win over using the routing
> table on every lookup.
>
I believe the question was mainly about mechanics, FLOWTABLE doesn't
belong in DEFAULTS but it may well belong in GENERIC.
Sam
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