On Saturday 06 August 2005 02:33, David S. Miller wrote:
> You can't call into the networking packet input path from
> hardware interrupt context, it simply is not allowed.
>
> And that's the context in which netif_rx() gets called.
Duh. I assumed we already were in softirq context here (but with
You can't call into the networking packet input path from
hardware interrupt context, it simply is not allowed.
And that's the context in which netif_rx() gets called.
That is why netif_rx() just queues, and schedules a software
interrupt in which the netif_receive_skb() call gets made.
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Hi,
OK, I am still a network klutz. The attached patch changes netif_rx to call
netif_receive_skb directly instead of going through softnet. It works with
my e1000 here, but eventually oopses under moderate load. I see that a few
drivers use netif_receive_skb directly, sometimes together wit
