[lwip-users] Lwip Packet size

[j . burton]

Hello, do you know how large is packet send with lwip implementation?

I mean I send 300 byte of GPS data but really how much I sent?Including header
info ack signals for establish a tcp connection and disconnection, etc...

Thanks a lot...


>-- Messaggio Originale --
>From: "Bonny Gijzen" <address@hidden>
>To: <address@hidden>
>Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:44:08 +0200
>Subject: [lwip-users] repost: MEM_ALIGN and pbuf.c
>Reply-To: Bonny Gijzen <address@hidden>,
>       Mailing list for lwIP users <address@hidden>
>
>
>Hi guys,
>
>
>It seems the bug which John Recker posted still exists in the latest lwip
>release (1.1.0 with some small updates from CVS), so I am reposting it again
>now to give it some more attention.
>(A friend of mine bumped into this bug on his MIPS implementation)
>
>Here is the original message from John Recker:
>
>It appears to me that there are several problems
>with the use of MEM_ALIGN in pbuf.c (the code is
>from the 5.3 release, but appears unchanged in the
>latest release)
>
>Two that I noticed are:
>
>pbuf_alloc(). Line 235..
>
>    /* Set the payload pointer so that it points offset bytes into
>       pbuf data memory. */
>    p->payload = MEM_ALIGN((void *)((u8_t *)p + (sizeof(struct pbuf) +
>offset)));
>
>    /* The total length of the pbuf is the requested size. */
>    p->tot_len = size;
>
>    /* Set the length of the first pbuf is the chain. */
>    p->len = size > PBUF_POOL_BUFSIZE - offset? PBUF_POOL_BUFSIZE - offset:
>
>size;
>
>The problem here is that p->len is not correct
>if (p->payload != p). The size calculation should
>also account for incrementing p->payload
>for alignment.
>
>
>pbuf_alloc(). Line 262
>
>      q->payload = (void *)((u8_t *)q + sizeof(struct pbuf));
>
>This should be wrapped with the MEM_ALIGN macro.
>
>I think that there are additional problems.
>But, at this point I started looking at the
>base cause of the memory alignment problem.
>pbuf_pool_memory itself is guaranteed to be
>memory aligned. So, as long as PBUF_POOL_BUFSIZE
>and sizeof(struct pbuf) are multiples of the
>memory alignment, then so should any address
>returned by pbuf_pool_alloc.
>
>So I was able to work around the problem by
>changing the definition of struct pbuf (note
>that I am forcing byte alignment in all my
>structs due to requirements of another library
>I am using). True, this change adds 2 bytes/struct,
>but the change does provide up to 64 bit alignment
>if it is packed (and the code won't work on
>machines w/ memory alignment requirements w/o
>the extra 2 bytes anyways...)
>
>struct pbuf {
>  struct pbuf *next;
>
>  void *payload;
>
>  /* high 4 bits, flags, low 4 bits reference count */
>  u16_t flags, ref;
>
>  /* Total length of buffer + additionally chained buffers. */
>  u16_t tot_len;
>  /* Length of this buffer. */
>  u16_t len;
>
>};
>
>
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