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
> -
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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
--
/***************************************************
*Neil Horman
*Software Engineer
*Red Hat, Inc.
*nhorman@redhat.com
*gpg keyid: 1024D / 0x92A74FA1
*http://pgp.mit.edu
***************************************************/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-07 13:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-07 8:20 require packet path at device layer linux lover
2005-01-07 13:05 ` Neil Horman [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=41DE892F.5030206@redhat.com \
--to=nhorman@redhat.com \
--cc=linux-net@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux.lover2004@gmail.com \
--cc=netdev@oss.sgi.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).