RE: Networking question

[Bloch, Jack]

I have tried both methods and they work. I would of course like to use the
most real-time efficient and "Kernel standard" methods. Looking into the
code code of netif_rx_ni seems to be logically the most correct way since it
will trigger do_softirq directly after the call to netif_rx.

Jack Bloch
Siemens Carrier Networks
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-----Original Message-----
From: Maksim (Max) Krasnyanskiy [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 6:32 PM
To: [e-mail]; Bloch, Jack
Cc: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Networking question

> > the priority of the softirq daemon or ensure that it is always awoken 
> when a
> > netif_rx is called?
>
>You should suppound it with local_bh_disable()/enable(), when using
>from process context.
Actually he should call netif_rx_ni() instead of netif_rx().
_ni stands for non-interrupt context.

Max