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Date:      Mon, 26 Oct 1998 16:40:56 +0100 (MET)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Cc:        louie@TransSys.COM, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: questions of taste..  mbuf header change
Message-ID:  <199810261540.QAA02570@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <199810261712.MAA19008@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Oct 26, 98 12:12:36 pm

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> > - what, if anything, breaks if there are 8 or 10 bytes fewer space in
> > the first mbuf?  There was some discussion a while ago about increasing
> > MSIZE from 128 to something larger, but this didn't seem to happen.
> 
> Probably local-domain datagram sockets with long path names.  Can't
> think of anything else.  I'm inclined to increase MSIZE to 256 in any
> case...

from my experience with the previous implementation of dummynet:
mbufs are not zeroed on allocation, and that might force you to
initialize them in a lot of places.

Also i had problems with the user-space ppp, not sure if it was
something hardwired in the code or just my fault.

In the current implementation i have reverted to standard mbufs and the
code is much cleaner and robust.

	cheers
	luigi
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