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Date:      Wed, 19 Jun 2002 20:46:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
Cc:        julian@FreeBSD.ORG, net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: removing global variables from the network stack
Message-ID:  <200206200346.g5K3kbC47150@arch20m.dellroad.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020619094420.C58636@iguana.icir.org> "from Luigi Rizzo at Jun 19, 2002 09:44:20 am"

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Luigi Rizzo writes:
> The global variable in question is "ip_divert_cookie",
> declared in ip_divert.c and used to pass the divert port
> to divert_packet(), and from div_output() to ip_output()/ip_input()
> 
> For the former the fix is trivial, we just need to add an additional
> argument to divert_packet().
> 
> For the latter, it *would* be easy to add an argument to ip_output()
> but if we do not want to change the interface, perhaps the easiest
> trick is to pass the annotation in the same way as it is done for
> dummynet info, i.e. using a fake mbuf prepended to the actual chain.
> Something like this:

I don't think adding another parameter to ip_input() is such a bad
thing, because presumably it would only exist in kernels with the
IPDIVERT option. For "normal" people there would be no slowdown
(and consequently no complaints :-)

This is also simpler and faster than the aux mbuf, etc. schemes..
after all, all you are passing here is a 16 bit value.

-Archie

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Archie Cobbs     *     Packet Design     *     http://www.packetdesign.com

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