Hi,
Sorry, I of course discuss here your previous question about SKB
Regards,
Rami
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Rami Rosen wrote:
> Hi, Pranay,
>
> First, let's assume that you are talking about IPv4, though you did not
> mention it explicitly. (The principles in IPv6 are quite similar, though
Hi, Pranay,
First, let's assume that you are talking about IPv4, though you did not
mention it explicitly. (The principles in IPv6 are quite similar, though)
A packet is sent out in the usual case with the ip_queue_xmit() method.
The ip_queue_xmit() method calls the ip_route_output_ports() metho
Hi
Referring to Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt
a)
ndo->ndo_start_xmit if written "as is" will be thread safe? [Correct?]
NETIF_F_LLTX is not set only then this is true.
But dev_queue_xmit(skb) doesn't seem to take any lock, neither does
dev_hard_start_xmit. Please let me know if i'm wr