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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: kiran kandi <kkiran78@hotmail.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hard_start_xmit  conext
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 03:36:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44E2CB10.9080701@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1GDBlk-0006O1-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>

Herbert Xu wrote:
> kiran kandi <kkiran78@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> In what context hard_start_xmit  function is called. Is it called in soft 
>> irq or a  processes context.
> 
> softirq
> 
>> Also can you call kfree_skb in  soft irq context.
> 
> Yes.  Don't do it in hard irq context though.

FWIW there is also Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt where this 
sort of stuff is documented.

	Jeff



  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-16  7:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-15 19:12 hard_start_xmit conext kiran kandi
2006-08-16  3:08 ` Herbert Xu
2006-08-16  7:36   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-08-16  8:48     ` Ben Greear
2006-08-16 10:22       ` Herbert Xu

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