Brian Somers wrote:
> Having said this, it would be nice if it was possible to pre-allocate
> (a small number of) mbufs for a pipe() or socketpair(), giving a
> reliable SOCK_DGRAM file-descriptor based ipc mechanism.
We're talking Internet here, so it won't be reliable. It'd just block the
select/write instead of dropping packets on the floor locally if there is
no queue space. Mbufs are not the scare resource, queue space in the
interface queue is.
Lars
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