From: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>
To: linux lover <linux.lover2004@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-net@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: require packet path at device layer
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 08:05:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41DE892F.5030206@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <72c6e3790501070020755ffacf@mail.gmail.com>
linux lover wrote:
> Hello,
> Can anybody provide me how packet control is transferred from
> netif_rx to netif_receive_skb function.
> regards,
> linux.lover
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Believe its done directly in netif_rx, which calls:
netif_rx_schedule(&queue->blog_dev)
The poll routine for blog_dev which gets set in net_dev_init is called
process_backlog, which takes packets queued from netif_rx and calls
netif_receive_skb with them
HTH
Neil
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2005-01-07 8:20 require packet path at device layer linux lover
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