Re: Q: sock output serialization

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sat Sep 16 2000 - 17:40:13 EST


> > With the current scheme, lapb first acknowleges reception of the frame
> > and after that, netif_rx() might still discard it -- which is evil.
>
> This might screw things a bit. Can you defer to say first call
> netif_rx() then acknowledge or is this hard-coded into the f/ware?

I think its fixable to make it do the RR/RNR after bouncing it up the stack.
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