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Date:      Wed, 25 Sep 2002 12:48:10 -0700
From:      Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
To:        Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>
Cc:        Prafulla Deuskar <pdeuskar@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fwd: mbuf chain
Message-ID:  <20020925124810.B50200@iguana.icir.org>
In-Reply-To: <200209251939.g8PJdjr10039@ambrisko.com>; from ambrisko@ambrisko.com on Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 12:39:45PM -0700
References:  <20020924212719.A42295@iguana.icir.org> <200209251939.g8PJdjr10039@ambrisko.com>

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On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 12:39:45PM -0700, Doug Ambrisko wrote:
...
> Various drivers have code to deal with this when the structure
> it is putting the frags into runs out :-(  See a recent bug fix to
> the ste(4) gleaned from the fxp(4).  This type of problem is probably
> lurking in other drivers.  Unfortunately the ste(4) driver siliently

which suggests that we should definitely try to modify sbappend()
and/or possibly sbcompress to reduce the fragment count to reasonably
small values even in presence of very small writes.

	cheers
	luigi

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