svn commit: r191255 - in head/sys: amd64/conf conf i386/conf net

Sam Leffler sam at freebsd.org
Tue Jun 9 17:19:18 UTC 2009


Kip Macy wrote:
>> I think FLOWTABLE does nto belong into DEFAULTS.  Really DEFAULTS was
>> meant for "You cannot boot without this" and if people start to weaken
>> it, DEFAULTS will soon be the new GENERIC.  That said I am not sure it
>> belongs to GENERIC either.
>>     
>
> I can either push it in to GENERIC or I can change it to NOFLOWTABLE.
> If you want to remove it from GENERIC then we're going to have to have
> a lengthy discussion about what most FreeBSD users actually use and
> gut GENERIC as it stands now. The fact is, most FreeBSD users have
> sufficiently few peers that flowtable is a win over using the routing
> table on every lookup.
>   

I believe the question was mainly about mechanics,  FLOWTABLE doesn't 
belong in DEFAULTS but it may well belong in GENERIC.

    Sam



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