Quoting Bernd Eckenfels <ecki-news2002-06@lina.inka.de>:
> For 2.4 see net/core/dev.c:netif_rx(skb) which is called by the
> network driver. This will add it to the queue->input_pkt_queue,
> which is processed by net_rx_action(), which will call the protocol
> families receive handlers eighter directly via the func() method of
> the protcol or by deliver_to_old_cones() which does contain the
> clone. for ip it is net/ipv4/ip_input.c:ip_rcv() which hands it to
> ip_rcv_finish() which distributes it to the ip_local_deliver() for
> local targets which then passes it to ip_local_deliver_finish()
> which calls the ip protocol handler, for example udp_rcv which looks
> up the socket and passes it into that.
>
> Hope this is nearly right, by reading the source. Note, I am not
> shure with softirq and stuff, which function is running in the irq
> or bottom half mode.
As far as irq/softirq goes:
HW Interrupt Handler:
device rx interrupt handler routine()
netif_rx()
softirq (NET_RX_SOFTIRQ handling (from do_softirq() etc)
net_rx_action()
ip_rcv()
ip_rcv_finish()
ip_local_deliver()
ip_local_deliver_finish()
udp_rcv()
process context:
udp_recvmsg()
thanks,
Nivedita
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