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Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 20:40:00 -0700 (PDT)
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
Subject: Re: kern/7403: splimp/splnet interrupt race in ip_drain 
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The following reply was made to PR kern/7403; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To: Matt Dillon <dillon@best.net>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/7403: splimp/splnet interrupt race in ip_drain 
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 20:37:42 -0700

 >    Yah, that makes more sense. 
 >
 >    Refresh my memory please:  Is ip_input() called at splimp() or splnet() ?
 >    If it's called from an interrupt there are other race conditions beyond 
 >    m_retry() that we have to worry about.
 
    splnet(). Packet are only queued at splimp().
 
 -DG
 
 David Greenman
 Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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