On 4/24/2010 3:53 PM, Vishal Ahuja wrote: > I need to understand the packet receiving process in OpenSolaris - from > the packets being received at the NIC, all the way upto the socket > buffer. Is there a document describing this? I have ordered "Solaris > internals : Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris kernel architecture", but it will > take a couple of days to arrive. Also, I would like to know if the > packet receiving process in opensolaris is similar to that in linux 2.6.
Dtrace is your friend. I'd recommend reading enough of the source for the drivers of interest so that you find out what the "interesting" parts are, and then use dtrace to explore how the system behaves. And, no, it's not really much like Linux at all. It runs on the same hardware, so you'll see drivers for the same devices, but the similarity stops there. :-/ -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
