On Nov 4, 2015, at 9:04 PM, David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote:
> As part of fixing y2038 problems, Arnd is going to have to make a new > version fo the AF_PACKET mmap() tpacker descriptors in order to extend > the time values to 64-bit. > > So I want everyone to think about whether there are any other changes > we might want to make given that we have to make a v4 anyways. > > Particularly, I am rather certain that the buffer management could be > improved. Some have complained that v3 is kinda awkward to use and/or > suboptimal is various ways. As a core libpcap developer, I will at least state that it works a *lot* better than v1 and v2 did. Having buffer slots that can hold only one packet is *really* suboptimal for packet capture; having buffer slots that can hold multiple packets works a lot better, as there's less wasted memory. I'll see whether there are any changes that *would* make libpcap's life better.-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
