Index: share/man/man9/mbuf.9
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--- share/man/man9/mbuf.9	21 May 2003 15:49:01 -0000	1.27
+++ share/man/man9/mbuf.9	31 May 2003 13:25:49 -0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" Copyright (c) 2000 FreeBSD Inc.
+.\" Copyright (c) 2000, 2003 FreeBSD Project
 .\" All rights reserved.
 .\"
 .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@
 .Fn mtod "struct mbuf *mbuf" "type"
 .Ft int
 .Fn MEXT_IS_REF "struct mbuf *mbuf"
-.Fn M_COPY_PKTHDR "struct mbuf *to" "struct mbuf *from"
 .Fn M_ALIGN "struct mbuf *mbuf" "u_int len"
 .Fn MH_ALIGN "struct mbuf *mbuf" "u_int len"
 .Ft int
@@ -124,7 +123,7 @@
 An mbuf is a basic unit of memory management in the kernel IPC subsystem.
 Network packets and socket buffers are stored in mbufs.
 A network packet may span multiple mbufs arranged into a chain
-(linked list),
+.Pq linked list ,
 which allows adding or trimming
 network headers with little overhead.
 .Pp
@@ -137,7 +136,7 @@
 The mbuf's total size,
 .Dv MSIZE ,
 is a machine-dependent constant defined in
-.Pa machine/param.h .
+.Aq Pa machine/param.h .
 The mbuf header includes:
 .Pp
 .Bl -tag -width "m_nextpkt" -compact -offset indent
@@ -549,13 +548,20 @@
 .Sh RETURN VALUES
 See above.
 .Sh HISTORY
-.\" Please correct me if I'm wrong
-Mbufs appeared in an early version of
-.Bx .
-Besides for being used for network packets, they were used
-to store various dynamic structures, such as routing table
-entries, interface addresses, protocol control blocks, etc.
-.Sh AUTHORS
 The original
 .Nm
-man page was written by Yar Tikhiy.
+data structures were designed by Rob Gurwitz when he did the
+initial TCP/IP implementation at BBN.
+Further extensions and enhancements were made by Bill Joy,
+Sam Leffler and Mike Karels at CSRG for 4.3BSD.
+.Pp
+The
+.Nm
+allocator in
+.Fx 5.0
+was re-written by Bosko Milekic to provide better
+performance on Symmetric Multi-Processor (SMP) systems
+and to handle starvation situations efficiently.
+.Sh AUTHORS
+This man page was written by
+.An Yar Tikhiy Aq yar@FreeBSD.ORG .