Nathanael M Van Vorst wrote:
I have some questions about netgraph. I have been using the framework for
project for a little while. I am at the point where I want to hand-off
netgraph items to a kernel thread or a kernel module. Then I want the
module or thread to do some processing and hand this back to netgraph.
I guess I should answer you on this one..
We do not have a specific facility to allow a netgraph node to
create or run as a separate kernel thread. The code should be able to
pass stuff to a kernel thread in much the same way that it can
pass stuff to a userland thread. i.e. get some lock, put it in a queue,
drop the lock again
and do a wakeup on the thread to tell it there is something to get.
I guess it could create the thread during node startup or type addition..
there are several examples of threads being created in /sys/kern
look for instances of kthread_create().
I looked through a little bit, and did not find an easy way. Did I miss it?
tell us more about what you'd like to do..
Marching on, I wrote up a little module that had two functions that a node
could call. One to register the hook to pass items back on, and one to pass
items to to the module. Inside the module I call NG_FWD_ITEM to send the
item back on the passed in hook. It always crashes in the ITEM_DEBUG
macro. Help? Where should I go? When I get a kernel core, the stack is
corrupt so it is f no use.
I don't quite understand what you mean by "register the hook"
If anyone is curious I can send the little test code I have cobbled
together to see how I might do this.
send to me directly.
Thanks!!
--Nate
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