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 GTE Internetworking Powered by BBN +1-617-873-5745 Cambridge, MA +1-617-873-6091 (Fax) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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