softirq question

Hi, Is it possible to enter into sleep mode ( current->state = !RUNNING && schedule(_timeout)) from a softirq ? It is not a real hardware interrupt after all, but it still runs in the context of a running process Aviv Greenberg // sizeof(void) http://www.voltaire.com - To

TCP Segmentation Offload

Hi All, There is a nice feature (I saw it on 3Com EtherLink Server NIC cards) called "TCP Segmentation Offload". Which means that the stack is presented with a larger MTU than eth, and the NIC produces smaller tcp segments. More info at M$ http://www.microsoft.com/HWDEV/network/taskoffload.htm#S