MT_TAG removal
Sam Leffler
sam at errno.com
Fri Dec 12 13:30:23 PST 2003
http://people.freebsd.org/~sam/mt_tag.patch
This set of changes eliminates the use of MT_TAG "pseudo mbufs", replacing
them mostly with packet tags (one case is handled by using an mbuf flag since
the linkage between "caller" and "callee" is direct and there's no need to
incur the overhead of a packet tag).
I've tested all these changes except for the PACKET_TAG_IPFORWARD stuff.
Before I can commit this stuff I need to do more testing (help welcome) and
need to evaluate the cost of doing multiple m_tag_find calls in the IP packet
processing paths. I suspect we'll want to make this call first check if any
tags exist before calling the code that does the actual list search.
I'm looking for code review and general feedback. I especially like the way
this cleans up divert sockets (in particular in the handling of fragments).
Sam
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