Re: [networking-discuss] Protocol processing and NIC receive interrupt

2010-07-11 Thread Steven Stallion
On 7/10/10 5:46 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Yes. There is normally a cut-out so that much protocol handling occurs out > of interrupt context. I think its worth mentioning that the Solaris interrupt model does not block. If you look closely, you'll see that calls to mac_rx will always occur out

Re: [networking-discuss] Protocol processing and NIC receive interrupt

2010-07-10 Thread Steven Stallion
On 7/10/10 5:46 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Yes. There is normally a cut-out so that much protocol handling occurs out > of interrupt context. I think its worth mentioning that the Solaris interrupt model does not block. If you look closely, you'll see that calls to mac_rx will always occur out

Re: [networking-discuss] Protocol processing and NIC receive interrupt

2010-07-10 Thread Garrett D'Amore
Yes. There is normally a cut-out so that much protocol handling occurs out of interrupt context. vhiz wrote: >Hi All, > >Considering the packet receiving process in opensolaris on a uniprocessor >system, the thread which handles the protocol processing, can it be >interrupted by an incoming