Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 13:39:02 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mbuf header bloat ? Message-ID: <15842.28230.205720.313119@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <20021125094815.F20370@xorpc.icir.org> References: <15840.8629.324788.887872@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021125111737.36232C-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20021125094815.F20370@xorpc.icir.org>
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Luigi Rizzo writes: > The mbuf bloat has two aspects -- first it does have some cost to > initialize and reset all these extra fields (and it is bug prone -- > witness is the missing cleanup in m_getcl(), because m-tags were > introduced after m_getcl() and probably it was forgotten); second, > a legitimate question might arise at some point on why some features > deserve to go there and others don't, and unfortunately the mac label > constitutes a very bad precedent because it is very large and not very > widely used (at list now) thus failing the two main important criteria > for selection what should be in and what should not. Well said. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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