Subject: Re: Slight change to mbuf external storage infrastructure
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 04/29/2002 11:08:11
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 07:00:17PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> The only comment I have is that these macros are getting a bit big!
> I'd hazard a guess that most of the calls to MFREE are almost
> never called.
I didn't actually change the compiled size of MFREE() that much at all.
Read the patch very carefully.
> Even for the others the function call cost might be less that the
> not unreasonable chance of the function code being already in
> the cache.
Most things should be using m_free() or m_freem() anyway.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>