On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Joshua Stewart wrote:
| After I understand it all, I will not be against putting together an
| explanation of the whole process and posting it back to this mailing
| list, or trying to find a Linux website that will host it. Is this type
| of this suitable for the Linux Documentation Project website?
|
| Josh
Yes, it should be fine for LDP.
Thanks,
-- ~Randy| On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 16:15, Randy.Dunlap wrote: | > On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Joshua Stewart wrote: | > | > | I'm still trying to follow a packet (or even better an sk_buff) from the | > | NIC card to user space. I think I have a good chunk of it figured out, | > | but I'm missing a bit from the time that the __netif_rx_schedule() | > | routine calls __cpu_raise_softirq() until the routine net_rx_action() | > | occurs. I read in a book on Linux TCP/IP implementation that the | > | softirq basically leads to a call to net_rx_action(), but I don't see | > | the connection yet. It's probably due to my lack of understanding of | > | IRQ's (and software IRQ's). | > | | > | Any help is appreciated. | > | > What are you going to do with this good info when you have it? | > Something like putting it on a web page would be very good, so that | > other people with similar questions can have a reference to look at. | > | > -- | > ~Randy
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