From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 7 07:46:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11BC016A4B3 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 07:46:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pixies.tirloni.org (pixies.tirloni.org [200.203.183.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2C9D43FBD for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 07:46:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tirloni@tirloni.org) Received: by pixies.tirloni.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AD4F71E1426; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 11:46:35 -0300 (BRT) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 11:46:35 -0300 From: "Giovanni P. Tirloni" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031007144635.GP25542@pixies.tirloni.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: netisr X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 14:46:39 -0000 Hi folks, I'm studying the network stack and now I'm confronted with something called netisr. It seems ether_demux puts the packet in a netisr queue instead of passing it directly to ip_input (if that was the packet's type). Is this derived from LRP ? I've read their paper and it looks like their network channel (ni) but I'm not sure. I also read about it in 5.2 TODO list about fine-grained locking. Where can I find more information on this? Thanks -- Giovanni P. Tirloni Fingerprint: 8C3F BEC5 79BD 3E9B EDB8 72F4 16E8 BA5E D031 5C26