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Date:      Tue, 28 Jul 1998 10:41:35 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SMP kernels... how many processes can be in ? 
Message-ID:  <199807281441.KAA19062@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980727164650.6196C-100000@current1.whistle.com>
References:  <199807272007.NAA01087@dingo.cdrom.com> <Pine.BSF.3.95.980727164650.6196C-100000@current1.whistle.com>

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<<On Mon, 27 Jul 1998 16:55:58 -0700 (PDT), Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> said:

> trouble is that there needs to be some place to store data
> on a 'packet by packet' basis, The data is generated at one point in
> processing and needed at another..

Stick it in the (mbuf) packet header.  If it's too big, stick a
pointer to it in the packet header.

-GAWollman

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