On Tue, 22 May 2001, Talmon_Reiss wrote: > I am trying to understand exactly what happens to a received packet after a > device driver creates an sk_buff and passes it to netif_rx(). Read net/* source code, where netif_rx is defined... Trace the code path... > In 2.2 there > was a net_bh() function which doesn't seem to be there in 2.4. softirqs are used in preference to net_bh. Why do you need net_bh? :) > Could someone > please explain what happens in 2.4, or provide some links (something like > http://kernelnewbies.org/documents/ipnetworking/linuxipnetworking.html which > was for 2.2) The answer to this sort of open-ended question could fill a book... Can you ask a -specific- question? Jeff - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
