From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Madhavi <madhavis@sasken.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Switching packets from netif_rx()
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:10:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FBB79C4.9090304@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0311191905580.2480-100000@pcz-madhavis.sasken.com>
Madhavi wrote:
> The setup is -
>
> +-----------+ +------------+ +------+
> | Streamer |-----------| Switch |----------| Host |
> +-----------+ +------------+ +------+
>
> The switching functionality is implemented in function netif_rx(). Based
> on the list of outgoing interfaces, I am doing the following things.
>
> * Cloning the packets.
> * Obtaining outgoing device from outgoing interface index.
> * Calling dev_queue_xmit() to send the packet on outgoing device.
As a tangent, this is pretty much what CONFIG_NET_FASTROUTE does...
Jeff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-19 14:10 UTC|newest]
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2003-11-19 13:51 Switching packets from netif_rx() Madhavi
2003-11-19 14:10 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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