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authorHenning Brauer <henning@cvs.openbsd.org>2007-05-27 05:33:40 +0000
committerHenning Brauer <henning@cvs.openbsd.org>2007-05-27 05:33:40 +0000
commitfb16b4c2d6add9cfd0cf0ea97110ce802c4fbc8c (patch)
tree25ee6b96cdd0b6b8a2a7081421679c603d0302bc /share/man
parent55511781c91b0e3907d42f1481f1ba995f3e89fa (diff)
add a note that mbuf tags use malloc'd memory, ok theo
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-rw-r--r--share/man/man9/mbuf_tags.96
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man9/mbuf_tags.9 b/share/man/man9/mbuf_tags.9
index d10f95f2aa6..ef4a7b15724 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/mbuf_tags.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/mbuf_tags.9
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: mbuf_tags.9,v 1.20 2007/01/03 18:43:12 claudio Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: mbuf_tags.9,v 1.21 2007/05/27 05:33:39 henning Exp $
.\"
.\" The author of this man page is Angelos D. Keromytis (angelos@cis.upenn.edu)
.\"
@@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ These functions allow the manipulation of generic packet attributes.
They are used by the kernel to keep track of operations done or
scheduled to happen to packets.
These attributes are attached to mbuf packet headers.
+.Dd
+Mbuf tags get allocated using
+.Xr malloc 9 ,
+thus, due to the performance impact, mbuf tags should be used with care.
.Pp
.Fn m_tag_get
allocates a new tag of type