Hi,
I came to a situation that requires to send multiple TCP packets (one
for each connection) from a kernel thread as soon as possible. The
following is the skeleton of my code:
kernel_thread()
{
foreach sk in (alive connections){
tp = &(sk->tp_pinfo.af_tcp);
skb = alloc_skb(xxx, GFP_ATOMIC);
/* build TCP header */
tcp_build_and_update_options(.....);
tp->af_specific->send_check(sk, th, skb->len, skb);
tp->af_specific->queue_xmit(skb);
printk("packet send out for sk %p, at %lu\n", sk, jiffies);
}
}
the output is always like this:
packet send out for sk 1 at 1000
packet send out for sk 2 at 1001
packet send out for sk 3 at 1002
...
It looks like this kernel thread get rescheduled after it has sent out 1
packet. But why? each iteration certainly does not need 10ms, why it get
rescheduled? Is it because af_specific->queue_xmit() is blocking
operation? but I notice that tcp_transmit_skb() also call it, and
tcp_transmit_skb() should not call any blockalbe operation. I try to
increase its priority or change its schedule policy,but has no effect
at all. Any suggestion is appreciated! This is really urgent.
Ronghua
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