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Date:      Fri, 16 Nov 2001 17:02:15 -0800
From:      Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@vicor-nb.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, net@FreeBSD.ORG, wollman@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: re-entrancy and the IP stack.
Message-ID:  <20011116170214.A86121@iguana.aciri.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111161617160.6632-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
References:  <20011116160458.B85435@iguana.aciri.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111161617160.6632-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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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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