Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 23:34:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@dsuper.net> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Clusters larger than PAGE_SIZE and contigmalloc() Message-ID: <200009140334.XAA05176@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009132234580.397-100000@jehovah.technokratis.com> References: <200009140222.WAA04696@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009132234580.397-100000@jehovah.technokratis.com>
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<<On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 23:03:02 -0400 (EDT), Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@dsuper.net> said: >I wouldn't actually push for allocating mbufs themselves to that >layer, simply because this isn't the only place we'd need to allocate >mbufs from - but I don't think that's what you meant by the above anyway. No, that's precisely what I meant. Only the network interface driver can tell what the precise requirements are for its buffers. (Remember the Amiga with its ``chip'' and ``fast'' memory?) Furthermore, anything which isn't either a packet about to be (re-)transmitted or a packet just received doesn't belong in an mbuf. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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