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Date:      Wed, 12 May 1999 10:50:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        beyssac@enst.fr (Pierre Beyssac)
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mbuf starvation
Message-ID:  <199905121750.KAA61736@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990512172544.A440@enst.fr> from Pierre Beyssac at "May 12, 99 05:25:44 pm"

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Pierre Beyssac writes:
>  			if (resid >= MINCLSIZE) {
>  				MCLGET(m, M_WAIT);
> +				if (m == 0) {
> +				    error = ENOBUFS;
> +				    goto release;
> +				}
>  				if ((m->m_flags & M_EXT) == 0)
>  					goto nopages;
>  				mlen = MCLBYTES;

I think this part of the patch is useless. MCLGET() does not set
m to NULL when it fails, it simply doesn't set the M_EXT flag.
...unless things have changed recently.

-Archie

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