option directive and turning on AOE

[Julian Elischer]

Scott Long wrote:

> Andre Oppermann wrote:
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> Having a single common interface is definitely attractive, but there are
> performance and locking issues with the Netgraph framework that should
> probably be resolved first. 

both of these issues are in fact not major..
netgraph itself has no locking issuess.. (Netgraph is the framework),
but some of teh node types have issues.  Specifically, node types that 
can be caled
from outside the netgraph framework, such as nodes that tie netgraph to 
other subsystems
need to be worked on so that control enterring netgraph code from those 
subsystems
gets an appropriate lock. This is not always needed, but every node 
needs to be
examined with this in mind now that we have locking in teh rest of the 
system
more worked out.

performace..  well it can be fast. it depends on a lot of issues however..
in particular how many locks get contentions.

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> Scott