* require packet path at device layer
@ 2005-01-07 8:20 linux lover
2005-01-07 13:05 ` Neil Horman
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From: linux lover @ 2005-01-07 8:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-net; +Cc: netdev
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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* Re: require packet path at device layer
2005-01-07 8:20 require packet path at device layer linux lover
@ 2005-01-07 13:05 ` Neil Horman
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From: Neil Horman @ 2005-01-07 13:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux lover; +Cc: linux-net, netdev
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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