Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:11:56 +0100 From: Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> To: Bruce M Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Multicast refcounting in network stack Message-ID: <45FEE07C.4060501@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <45FEDBF0.4050105@incunabulum.net> References: <45FEDBF0.4050105@incunabulum.net>
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Bruce M Simpson wrote: > Hi, > > A patch against -CURRENT is now available: > http://people.freebsd.org/~bms/dump/multi_refcounting.diff > > This is a fairly sweeping architectural change which should resolve > memory leaks and potential panics with the network stack as a whole, to > better support interface detach at runtime. > > I'd like to check it in as soon as possible as it fixes the root cause > of the problems we have had with carp and pfsync in our stack. NetBSD > has implemented refcounting like this for some time now, so it does not > suffer from the same problems. Patch looks good. :-) -- Andre
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