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Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, net@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Proposed patch, convert IFQ_MAXLEN to kernel tunable...
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gnn@FreeBSD.org wrote:
> ...
> I found no occurrences of the above in our code base.  I used cscope
> to search all of src/sys.  Are you aware of any occurrences of this?
>   

I have been using IFQ_MAXLEN to size buffer queues internal to some 
IGMPv3 stuff.

I don't feel comfortable with a change which sizes the queues for both 
IPv4 and IPv6 stacks, from a variable which is obscured by a macro.

thanks
BMS