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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: Proposal for ethernet, bridging, netgraph
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Archie Cobbs wrote:
>
> Louis A. Mamakos writes:
> >
> > Now that mbufs are 256 bytes long, is this getting to be too much data
> > to stick on the kernel stack? It seems like it's not a problem now, but
> > this code is now going to be invoked deeper in the stack than before.
> >
> > If this code is running at splnet(), then it ought to be safe to just
> > have a static mbuf laying about for this purpose, rather than allocating
> > a local on the kernel stack.
>
> Good point.. we could just use a struct m_hdr.. and in any case
> it should be able to be a static variable.. we're at splnet().
i think it is bad style to do a static one..
we cannot know what will happen WRT SMP in the near future and we are
setting ourselves up for future problems if we do that. I think we could
get away with a m_hdr.
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