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From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>
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Subject: Re: re-entrancy and the IP stack.
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> so far there hasn't been a lot of suggestion as to how the goal can be
> achieved however..

i actually suggested one i.e. have explicit pointers
to metadata area(s) in the pkthdr. I think you forget the
most fundamental feature which is performance.
This is way more important than flexibility i think.

> things it should be:
> 
> 1/ flexible
> 2/ queueable
> 3/ transparent to 3rd party code that doesn't know about it.

	cheers
	luigi

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