Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 18:59:26 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mbuf header bloat ? Message-ID: <73832.1038247166@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:31:39 EST." <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021125111737.36232C-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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In message <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021125111737.36232C-100000@fledge.watson.org>, Robe rt Watson writes: > >On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > >> I propose that we make struct label portion of the pkthdr compile-time >> conditional on MAC. The assumption is that you will move the MAC label >> to an m_tag sometime after 5.0-RELEASE. I object to this. I spent time getting rid of variant sized structs in -current, and we should not reintroduce them. If you wonder why this is important, think: kld-load and forgetting the necessary opt_bla.h #includes. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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