Subject: Re: disable m_dup()
To: None <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: tech-net
Date: 08/18/2000 23:17:28
>no, that's OK, because MLGET either attaches a MCLBYTES-sized cluster
>to the mbuf or doesn't set the M_EXT flag.
>M_EXT means that an mbuf has external storage.

	the code i'm worrying about (m_dup) does not allocate the cluster by
	itself - the cluster was allocated by someone else, so m_dup has
	no idea about how the cluster was allocated.

>However, there are other forms of external mbufs (although support for
>them is rarely used).

	we may need to visit the arena, for 9K packets (GbE).

itojun