that should be better.
The old code counted references to mbuf clusters by using the offset
of the cluster from the start of memory allocated for mbufs and
clusters as an index into an array of chars, which did the reference
counting. If the external storage was not a cluster then reference
counting had to be done by the code using that external storage.
NetBSD's system of linked lists of mbufs was cosidered, but Alfred
felt it would have locking issues when the kernel was made more
SMP friendly.
The system implimented uses a pool of unions to track external
storage. The union contains an int for counting the references and
a pointer for forming a free list. The reference counts are
incremented and decremented atomically and so should be SMP friendly.
This system can track reference counts for any sort of external
storage.
Access to the reference counting stuff is now through macros defined
in mbuf.h, so it should be easier to make changes to the system in
the future.
The possibility of storing the reference count in one of the
referencing mbufs was considered, but was rejected 'cos it would
often leave extra mbufs allocated. Storing the reference count in
the cluster was also considered, but because the external storage
may not be a cluster this isn't an option.
The size of the pool of reference counters is available in the
stats provided by "netstat -m".
PR: 19866
Submitted by: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@dsuper.net>
Reviewed by: alfred (glanced at by others on -net)
There was a missing description for a new flags to netstat.
I already added the fix to netstat man, but usage() change is
also necessary.
Specified by: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
Approved by: jkh
kernel IPv6 multicast routing support.
pim6 dense mode daemon
pim6 sparse mode daemon
netstat support of IPv6 multicast routing statistics
Merging to the current and testing with other existing multicast routers
is done by Tatsuya Jinmei <jinmei@kame.net>, who writes and maintainances
the base code in KAME distribution.
Make world check and kernel build check was also successful.
only when either of sflag and "-f inet6" is specified.
-fix the indentation of default output
Specified by: Stephen McKay <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au>
Reviewed and Confirmed by: Stephen McKay <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au>
information in 80 columns.
TODO: IPv6 related information is not likely to be kept in 80 columns, anyway.
Some more print modes could be added,
but what is the priority between those modes?
-print out all information even if they don't fit into 80 columns
-strip off some information to fit them into 80 columns
Reviewed by: markm
packet divert at kernel for IPv6/IPv4 translater daemon
This includes queue related patch submitted by jburkhol@home.com.
Submitted by: queue related patch from jburkhol@home.com
Reviewed by: freebsd-arch, cvs-committers
Obtained from: KAME project
Been in production for 3 years now. Gives Instant Frame relay to if_sr
and if_ar drivers, and PPPOE support soon. See:
ftp://ftp.whistle.com/pub/archie/netgraph/index.html
for on-line manual pages.
Reviewed by: Doug Rabson (dfr@freebsd.org)
Obtained from: Whistle CVS tree
track.
The $Id$ line is normally at the bottom of the main comment block in the
man page, separated from the rest of the manpage by an empty comment,
like so;
.\" $Id$
.\"
If the immediately preceding comment is a @(#) format ID marker than the
the $Id$ will line up underneath it with no intervening blank lines.
Otherwise, an additional blank line is inserted.
Approved by: bde
the kernel; this was left over from the earlier protocol-dependent
kernel multicast routing code.
Learn how to handle the malloc'd multicast routing table (instead of
expecting it to be in mbufs)
Didn't fix the alignment of the output fields on alpha where addresses
require 16 characters to print.
Added a dummy field to the pt_u union to help the alpha compiler align
the u_sa field in a suiable way.
