Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 14:01:25 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@technokratis.com> Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Abusing m_ext for a worthy goal. Message-ID: <20001211140125.M16205@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012111636010.21986-100000@jehovah.technokratis.com>; from bmilekic@technokratis.com on Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 04:37:15PM -0500 References: <20001211121354.E16205@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012111636010.21986-100000@jehovah.technokratis.com>
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* Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@technokratis.com> [001211 13:36] wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > Hmm, I think instead of doing this sort of abuse, what I should be > > doing is allocating an mbuf header, then allocating a mbuf cluster > > then attaching them using the MEXTADD() macro. > > Alfred, I'm surprised you're pointing this out when in my first post, > the code example does exactly this, minus the mbuf allocation. :-) Well i understand that, I just didn't want to put all that code in when a small abstraction would give a good api for other code that might do this. > > I'm going to look at the code to see if there's a clean way to do this, > > if not can you provide an interface for allocating and free'ing > > clusters by themselves? :) -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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