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Date:      Wed, 02 Sep 1998 10:10:04 -0400
From:      Dennis Rockwell <dennis@bbn.com>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems with MGET(m, M_WAIT, *) [was: Semantics of ...] 
Message-ID:  <199809021410.KAA06312@po1.bbn.com>
In-Reply-To: Message from Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>  <199809020329.XAA02805@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> .

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On 1 Sep, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> Yes -- but it will take some time.  The eventual goal is for
> interfaces to manage their own memory allocation -- some interfaces
> may have unusual requirements for memory which is being used as a
> buffer.

How will you be dealing with consumers that don't consume
quickly?  An interface-dedicated buffer, holding a single
character of payload, sitting on somebody's TCP input queue
doesn't seem very efficient, either.

Just curious -- I've done some similar work myself in former
lives.

Dennis Rockwell                 dennis@bbn.com
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