Re: Hints on kernel config for a dula pII/450 system anyone?

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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:>      is in host order and when it is in network order.  It just needs to
:>      stay in network order.  Second, we need to abstract the m_sharecount()
:>      function so it works with non-cluster extensions.
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:I was thinking about that as well. What about copying (!) the
:interesting fields into the mbuf header itself and really making mbufs
:append/prepend only?
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:Joerg

    Well, we can't make them append/prepend only... significant manipulation
    of mbufs occurs beyond field flipping.

    I don't think we need to cache fields in host-form in the mbuf either.
    ntohl() has an overhead of 2.5ns (or less).

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>