From owner-freebsd-net Fri Jul 12 0: 0:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 782F737B408 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 00:00:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF72143E58 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 00:00:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org ([12.232.206.8]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020712070024.TLNG8262.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@InterJet.elischer.org>; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 07:00:24 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA50396; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 23:44:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 23:44:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Archie Cobbs , Bosko Milekic , Luigi Rizzo , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mbuf external buffer reference counters In-Reply-To: <20020712064104.GG97638@elvis.mu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > That's true, but could someone explain how one can safely and > effeciently manipulate such a structure in an SMP environment? what does NetBSD do for that? > I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm just saying it didn't seem > intuative to me back then, as well as now. > > -- > -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message