On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Amit Shah wrote: > so what i basically want to know is does everything happen what i > mentioned above happen in one go or it just gives it to ip_rcv() and returns > and then moves on to the next packet in the IP input queue. IMHO, it would have to finish everything since this isnt a microkernel. For the function ip_rcv to return, it would have to complete all the tasks. -- I'm an angel!!! Honest! The horns are just there to hold the halo up straight. ^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^ Amit Kucheria EECS Grad. Research Assistant University of Kansas @ Lawrence (R): +1-785-830-8521 ||| (C): +1-785-760-2871 ____________________________________________________ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/