From owner-freebsd-net Thu Nov 21 21:40: 7 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 D22F237B404 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 21:40:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [66.127.85.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 260DC43E91 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 21:40:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from melange (melange.errno.com [66.127.85.82]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.12.5/8.12.1) with ESMTP id gAM5e49i083129 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 21:40:05 -0800 (PST)?g (envelope-from sam@errno.com)œ X-Authentication-Warning: ebb.errno.com: Host melange.errno.com [66.127.85.82] claimed to be melange Message-ID: <196b01c291e9$9c0361b0$52557f42@errno.com> From: "Sam Leffler" To: References: <196301c291e9$56d25e70$52557f42@errno.com> Subject: Re: MFC of mtags Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 21:40:04 -0800 Organization: Errno Consulting MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 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 > I want to commit the mbuf packet tag changes to stable. These changes > replace the aux mbuf pointer in the mbuf with a list of "packet tags". This > does not change the size of the mbuf structure but does affect any software > that uses them (presently only KAME ipsec which has been patched to use > packet tags instead). > > Included in the patch is a change to the calling convention of ip_output to > add a struct inpcb * instead of passing this pointer via an aux mbuf. This > was done to eliminate the main use of aux mbufs but would affect any > software that directly calls ip_output (currently only ipfilter which has > been patched appropriately). > > All these changes have been in current for a while. They were originally > developed in stable and have been in use, in one form or another (in > stable), for ~9 months. > > If you have issues with these changes please contact me directly. I'll wait > a week before applying them. > Sigh, the patch is found at http://www.freebsd.org/~sam/mtag-stable.patch. Sam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message