Hi, From reading the Linux 2.4 networking code I can figure out that any activity that can change the state of the socket (it can be sequence numbers getting updated or geting more free sndbuf memory because of some packet on the retransmission queue being ACKed) is done after taking the socket lock (lock_sock from user context and bh_lock_sock from BH context). I would like some authority on this to confirm this. Is the following statement true. At any time (even on SMP machines) only one piece of the code will be working on a socket. Of course the piece of code in question is one that changes the state of the socket, either by processing a newly received packet or by calling tcp_free_skb() to add to the free socket memory. If any clarification is needed pls feel free to contact me. Any comments are highly welcome. Thanx tomar - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
