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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
Cc: net@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: CFR: MFC of mtags
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ok by me..


On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Sam Leffler wrote:

> 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.
> 
>     Sam
> 
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