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Date:      Wed, 27 Mar 2002 09:53:00 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ip_output and ENOBUFS
Message-ID:  <200203271753.g2RHr0L41197@arch20m.dellroad.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020326231657.A16810@iguana.icir.org> "from Luigi Rizzo at Mar 26, 2002 11:16:57 pm"

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Luigi Rizzo writes:
> > Is if_tx_rdy() something that can be used generally or does it only
> > work with dummynet ?
> 
> well, the function is dummynet-specific, but I would certainly like
> a generic callback list to be implemented in ifnet which is
> invoked on tx_empty events.

Me too :-)

> The problem as usual is that you have to touch every single device
> driver... Fortunately we can leave the ifnet structure unmodified
> because i just discovered there is an ifindex2ifnet array which is
> managed and can be extended to point to additional ifnet state that
> does not fit in the immutable one...

Why is it important to avoid changing 'struct ifnet' ?

-Archie

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Archie Cobbs     *     Packet Design     *     http://www.packetdesign.com

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