Robert Watson wrote:
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Aniruddha Bohra wrote:
My question is : Does ether_input() assume it is the only thread
executing the code? If it is the case, what is the reason for
dropping the lock in the DEVICE_POLLING case?
I can't speak to the details of the above, bu
Hi,
In two drivers, fxp and em, the assumptions about entering the
ether_input routine are different.
From em_rxeof:
#ifdef DEVICE_POLLING
EM_UNLOCK()
(*ifp->if_input)()
EM_UNLOCK()
#else
(*ifp->if_input)()
#endif
While in fxp:
FXP_UNLOCK()
(*ifp->if_input)()
FXP_LOCK()
My question is :
Do
Hi,
The ifnet manpage contains entries for the following routines which do
not exist in the ifnet struct.
The attached patch removes these entries.
if_done
if_poll_recv
if_poll_xmit
if_poll_inttrn
if_poll_slowinput
Thanks
Aniruddha
Index: ifnet.9
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
Last week, at the Linux.conf.au in Dunedin, Van Jacobson presented
some slides about work he has been doing rearchitecting the Linux
network stack. He claims to have reduced the CPU usage by 80% and
doubled network throughput (he expects more, but it was limited by
me
Hello
The following code snippet is from netinet/tcp_usrreq.c
As in the comment (and presumably correct behaviour) a RST should
be sent on close if the connection is embryonic. However,
if (tp->t_state < TCPS_ESTABLISHED)
tp = tcp_close(tp);
does not do it. One can imagine a scenario when a
Hello
I have been trying to get the 3Com 996 BT gigabit network interface
(bge) to work on
FreeBSD 4.3 Release. I got the driver from :
http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/Broadcom/4.x/bcm570x_drv.tar.gz
I have two machines with the interfaces connected via a crossover cable
and have not been able
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