[brussels-dev] [networking-discuss] ::nce mdb walker

[sowmini.varadhan at sun.com]

On (01/29/08 22:22), Erik Nordmark wrote:
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>>   http://cr.opensolaris.org/~sowmini/nce_walker/
>
> Would it have been simpler to have the kernel allocate the nces using a 
> separate kmem_cache? (That way some existing walker infrastructure in mdb 
> can be used.)
> Reason I'm asking is because I have some code being developed which moves 
> the nce allocation to use kmem_cache_alloc.

Do you mean like the ire entries? That would certainly make the 
walker much easier to write, but the existing code did not do a 
kmem_cache_alloc for nce's so I didn't want to change that 
infrastructure merely to make the mdb macro easier to write. 

--Sowmini