Re: question about mbuf intialization

[Darren Reed <darrenr%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 27/09/2013 12:41 AM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> I've been looking at the code and it seems to me that not only m_get() 
> needs to be changed, but also m_getcl() and MCLGET(). In essence, none 
> of the allocators currently set m_len or m_pkthdr.len, and they leave 
> it to the packet formation routines to do so. I am not against setting 
> the length to 0 by default on construction to make things more robust 
> (I don't think it makes any performance difference these days); I am 
> just mentioning that if we do that we should fix it consistently (if 
> anyone can call the mbuf API consistent...) christos 

The correct argument to me would appear to be that since the mbufs
contain no data in them when returned by m_get() that the length
fields should read as "0" in order to reflect that (if they don't already.)

Darren