could you explain it more specifically, what's the difference between
internal device and other device?
where dose it get the packet or when would the internal_dev_xmit procedure
be called?


2013/3/26 Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com>

> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 4:59 AM, 王国栋 <martin23...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> > I've got confused about the datapath send and recv procudure.
> > In my opinion, the datapath should lookup table when receiving packets
> from
> > ports, but it looks up table in the "internal_dev_xmit", which i think
> > should be used for sending a packet.
> > And the internal_dev_recv is called when send packets to a port.
> > I am in puzzle! Help!
>
> The function names are reversed for internal devices because they are
> from the view of the network stack.
>
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