10 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-isdnRe: i4b and netgraph (was: I4B suppor...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Hellmuth Michaelis | Jan 28, 1999 1:23 am | |
| Barry Scott | Jan 28, 1999 3:40 am | |
| Archie Cobbs | Jan 28, 1999 12:01 pm | |
| Archie Cobbs | Jan 28, 1999 12:09 pm | |
| Hellmuth Michaelis | Jan 28, 1999 1:07 pm | |
| Archie Cobbs | Jan 28, 1999 1:15 pm | |
| Julian Elischer | Jan 28, 1999 2:27 pm | |
| Barry Scott | Jan 29, 1999 2:47 am | |
| Jos Backus | Jan 29, 1999 8:53 am | |
| Julian Elischer | Jan 29, 1999 9:25 am |
| Subject: | Re: i4b and netgraph (was: I4B support for US ISDN?) | |
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| From: | Julian Elischer (jul...@whistle.com) | |
| Date: | Jan 28, 1999 2:27:24 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-isdn | |
It's a dead snap..
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Archie Cobbs wrote:
Hellmuth Michaelis writes:
When reading ftp://ftp.whistle.com/pub/archie/netgraph/man/netgraph.4.html, its easy to get that wrong impression:
In order to minimize latency, all netgraph operations are functional. ^^^ That is, data and control messages are delivered by making function calls rather than by using queues and mailboxes.
Yes, that's misleading... I've fixed it.
Actually, it's not completely the way you want it yet. As it stands now, when you send an mbuf, you have the option of either sending it directly (ie, functionally) or sending it by queueing it for delivery later.
However, there's no way as the *receiving node* to say, "I want all data sent to me to be delivered by qeueuing". So all sending nodes would have to "cooperate".
This ability would be easy to add and something we'll probably do now that you've pointed it out. :-)
I thought about this some time ago.
Just add a method called "queued receive".. (rcvdataq). In most nodes this is filled out just the same as the rcvdata (or the dequeuer might check for a NULL and use rcvdata instead) In the case where node wants to force queuing, the normal rcvdata method simply calls ng_queue_data() as soon as it's called. The data is then queued and at dequeue time is fed in through rcvdataq() which actually accepts tha data.
Note, that messages can also be queued. so a similar method may be used for that.
-Archie
___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com
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