From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: hard_start_xmit conext Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:48:56 -0700 Message-ID: <44E2DBF8.8040500@candelatech.com> References: <44E2CB10.9080701@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Herbert Xu , kiran kandi , netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from ns2.lanforge.com ([66.165.47.211]:4777 "EHLO ns2.lanforge.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751018AbWHPIt2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Aug 2006 04:49:28 -0400 To: Jeff Garzik In-Reply-To: <44E2CB10.9080701@garzik.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik wrote: > Herbert Xu wrote: > >> kiran kandi wrote: >> >>> In what context hard_start_xmit function is called. Is it called in >>> soft irq or a processes context. >> >> >> softirq It can be process too...doesn't pktgen call it directly? Ben