[PATCH] Multicast refcounting in network stack
Andre Oppermann
andre at freebsd.org
Mon Mar 19 19:11:58 UTC 2007
Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A patch against -CURRENT is now available:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~bms/dump/multi_refcounting.diff
>
> This is a fairly sweeping architectural change which should resolve
> memory leaks and potential panics with the network stack as a whole, to
> better support interface detach at runtime.
>
> I'd like to check it in as soon as possible as it fixes the root cause
> of the problems we have had with carp and pfsync in our stack. NetBSD
> has implemented refcounting like this for some time now, so it does not
> suffer from the same problems.
Patch looks good. :-)
--
Andre
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