[PATCH] Multicast refcounting in network stack

Andre Oppermann andre at freebsd.org
Mon Mar 19 19:11:58 UTC 2007


Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A patch against -CURRENT is now available:
>    http://people.freebsd.org/~bms/dump/multi_refcounting.diff
> 
> This is a fairly sweeping architectural change which should resolve 
> memory leaks and potential panics with the network stack as a whole, to 
> better support interface detach at runtime.
> 
> I'd like to check it in as soon as possible as it fixes the root cause 
> of the problems we have had with carp and pfsync in our stack. NetBSD 
> has implemented refcounting like this for some time now, so it does not 
> suffer from the same problems.

Patch looks good.  :-)

-- 
Andre



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