Hello,
On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 10:50:18AM -0300, Martin Pieuchot wrote:
> On 04/06/19(Tue) 23:57, Alexandr Nedvedicky wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I see, I owe some clarification to share wider context of this change.
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 10:32:57AM -0300, Martin Pieuchot wrote:
> > > On 04/06/19(Tue) 01:37, Alexandr Nedvedicky wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > diff below is just cosmetic change, which has no impact on current
> > > > functionality, because there is just single network task to deliver
> > > > packets to
> > > > IP stack. I just want to push this small change to tree to minimize
> > > > delta
> > > > between current and my experimental branch.
> > >
> > > But why is it fine?
> >
> > currently all packets reaching IP stack are processed by if_netisr(),
> > which
> > runs as a task. The task pops up a packet from its queue (a.k.a. taskq)
> > and
> > passes the packet to corresponding xintr() handler for further
> > processing.
>
> Only for packets that needs to be delivered/processed locally. In the
> case of forwarding if_input_process() is the task that process packets.
>
>
thanks for pointing that out. I keep forgetting this important detail.
regards
sashan
