On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 02:17:13PM +1100, Duncan Roe wrote:
> This patch offers a faster alternative / replacement function to pktb_alloc().
> 
> pktb_make() is a copy of the first part of pktb_alloc() modified to use a
> supplied buffer rather than calloc() one. It then calls the second part of
> pktb_alloc() which is modified to be a static function.
> 
> Can't think of a use case where one would choose to use pktb_alloc over
> pktb_make.
> In a furure documentation update, might relegate pktb_alloc and pktb_free to
> "other functions".

This is very useful.

Would you explore something looking similar to what I'm attaching?

Warning: Compile tested only :-)

Thanks.