Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Filebacked-tvbuffs : GSoC'13
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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 23:13:58 -0700
On May 12, 2013, at 11:07 PM, Anders Broman <a.broman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Guy Harris skrev 2013-05-11 19:45:
>> On May 11, 2013, at 7:28 AM, Ambarisha B <b.ambarisha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> I was trying to move the reassembled data from the reassembled_table to frame_data.
> 
> If the pointer to the reassembled data is  stored in the per_packet_data in frame_data the memory usage should work out to be the same or a bit less as the reassembled hash table wouldn't be needed, right?

If it's stored as per-packet data, then it involves no change to the frame_data structure, so it doesn't involve increasing the size of that structure (which would involve adding 4 to 8 bytes for every packet).