On 25.09.2010 09:19, Julian Elischer wrote:
over the last few years there has been a bit of talk about some changes people
want to see in mbufs
for 9.x
extra fields, changes in the way things are done, etc.
If you are one of these people, pipe up now..
to get the ball rolling..
* Add a field for the current FIB.. currently this is 4 bits stolen from the
flags.
what would be a good width: 8,12,16,24,32 bits?
this would allow setfib to use numbers greater than 16 (the current max)
16 bits for 65535 FIB's should be sufficient. More than that seems really
excessive.
* Preallocating some room for some number of tags before we start allocating
(expensively) new ones.
Within the mbuf? Or at external and attached mbuf allocation time? Tags
are variable width and such not really suitable for pre-allocation.
* dynamically working out what the front padding size should be.. per session..
i.e.
when a packet is sent out and needs to be adjusted to add more headers, the
originating
socket should be notified, or maybe the route should have this information...
so that future packets can start out with enough head room.
(this is not strictly to do with mbufs but might need some added field to point
to the structure
that needs to be
updated.
We already have "max_linkhdr" that specifies how much space is left
for prepends at the start of each packet. The link protocols set
this and also IPSec adds itself in there if enabled. If you have
other encapsulations you should make them add in there as well.
--
Andre
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