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Date:      Fri, 16 Nov 2001 16:13:41 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@vicor-nb.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, net@FreeBSD.ORG, wollman@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: re-entrancy and the IP stack. 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111161611270.6632-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011117000251.A13B93811@overcee.netplex.com.au>

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Well I don't care exactly how we do it but we need to
figure out a way of storing such metadata along with packets.
and it needs to be queueable along with the packets..
(sounds like an mbuf to me but if you have a better idea.....)
(and anyhow Garrett got rid of the 'static' uses
of mbufs, not 'travelling' 'per packet' uses..)

On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Peter Wemm wrote:

> Julian Elischer wrote:
> [..]
> > What is needed is obviously a 'per packet' storage location
> > for those things, defined in a "per protocol family" manner.
> > 
> > Luigi has already tried this scheme by defining a 
> > dummynet specific mbuf type that can  be prepended to the 
> > front of packets. What I suggest is to extend this
> > to defining a MT_PROTOSTORAGE. (or similar) mbuf type
> > that generic networking code is educated to ignore,
> > and that protocols can use to pass packet-specific state
> > information from one place to another.
> 
> Uhh.. no thanks.  Whatever you do, do *NOT* abuse the mbuf system
> for this.  We went to a lot of trouble (well, Garrett specifically)
> to rid the stacks of this obscenity.  Do *NOT* generalize it and undo
> it.  MT_DUMMYNET must die, not be propagated elsewhere.
> 
> If you want to have some general storage mechnaism, do *not* use mbufs
> for it.
> 
> Cheers,
> -Peter
> --
> Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
> "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
> 
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