From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 10 10:41:30 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF1C537B401 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:41:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1EB7B43F18 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:41:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 24588 invoked by uid 1000); 10 Jan 2003 18:41:25 -0000 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:41:25 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson To: Sam Leffler Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, re@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serious issues with kqueue on sockets on CURRENT. In-Reply-To: <12d201c2b8cd$a52a1440$52557f42@errno.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Sam Leffler wrote: > unless the mbufs are specifically tagged as such. I'm not clear on exactly > what sb_ctl is supposed to count; the comment in the cvs log is unclear: > > "Track the number of non-data chararacters stored in socket buffers so that > the data value returned by kevent()'s EVFILT_READ filter on non-TCP > sockets accurately reflects the amount of data that can be read from the > sockets by applications." > > What are "non-data characters"? A very zen question. :) In this case, It probably means bytes carried in an mbuf with a type other than MT_DATA. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message