Proposed patch, convert IFQ_MAXLEN to kernel tunable...

Bruce M. Simpson bms at FreeBSD.org
Wed Sep 24 14:52:53 UTC 2008


gnn at FreeBSD.org wrote:
> ...
> I found no occurrences of the above in our code base.  I used cscope
> to search all of src/sys.  Are you aware of any occurrences of this?
>   

I have been using IFQ_MAXLEN to size buffer queues internal to some 
IGMPv3 stuff.

I don't feel comfortable with a change which sizes the queues for both 
IPv4 and IPv6 stacks, from a variable which is obscured by a macro.

thanks
BMS


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