Re: [lwip-devel] (no subject)

[David Haas]

The advantage of pool pbufs is that they can be much faster to allocate, 
very important if you are allocating them in a driver. I really feel 
that they should not disappear.

David


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> Could I get some feedback on the new pbuf implementation in the
> "lukem-pbuf" CVS branch? It should be a drop-in replacement for the
> original implementation at the moment.
>
> The only unimplemented feature right now is that POOL pbufs are just an
> alias for RAM pbufs, and REF pbufs are just an alias for ROM pbufs. I
> don't think this will cause anything to break, but am happy to hear
> otherwise.
>
> Things that really are REF pbufs can now be given their own type without
> modifying lwIP core code, which is the primary goal of these changes - to
> handle external packet allocation and deallocation correctly.
>
> I'd like to get this branch merged soon so that I can start with
> a new pcb lookup implementation. To that end, please let me know of
> any changes that would be needed before a merge.
>
> --
> Luke
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