From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 25 9:59:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC81437B401; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 09:59:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EE7D43E88; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 09:59:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAPHxQ76073833; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 18:59:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Robert Watson Cc: Andrew Gallatin , Luigi Rizzo , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mbuf header bloat ? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:31:39 EST." Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 18:59:26 +0100 Message-ID: <73832.1038247166@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Robe rt Watson writes: > >On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > >> I propose that we make struct label portion of the pkthdr compile-time >> conditional on MAC. The assumption is that you will move the MAC label >> to an m_tag sometime after 5.0-RELEASE. I object to this. I spent time getting rid of variant sized structs in -current, and we should not reintroduce them. If you wonder why this is important, think: kld-load and forgetting the necessary opt_bla.h #includes. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message