Much improved sosend_*() functions

[Randall Stewart]

Andre Oppermann wrote:
> John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> 
> mbufs are 256 bytes.

Thats what I had thought :-)
> 
>> Hmmm.. If we switched clusters to 1536 bytes in size, we'd be able to
>> fit 8 in 12k (though I guess for 8k page boxes we'd do 16 in 24k)...  The
>> only issue w/ that would be that a few of the clusters would possibly
>> split page boundaries...  How much this would effect performance would
>> be an interesting question to answer...
> 
> 
> Splitting page boundaries is not an option as it may not be physically
> contigous.

That can be rather hazardous :-)

> 
> Just don't overengineer the stuff.  Mbufs are only used temporarily and
> a bit theoretical waste is not much a problem (so far at least).
> 

Yes, but I think a combination of less copying and a bit
better use of space could help overall.. but I guess as
they say the "proof is in the pudding" so I will have to
play a bit..

R


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