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
next prev parent 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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