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RE: packet life

> When receiving a packet, after the NET_RX_SOFTIRQ posted the skb to 
> softnet_data, what happened? In case of IPv4, I think the skb should 
> travel all the way up to a struct sock, then waiting there for a 
> syscall, right?
> 
> But I can't track the path down. I can't make the path in the 
> syscall context connected to the interrupt context. Someone please 
> help me understand this! Thank you very much!
> 


This might help:
http://www.gnumonks.org/ftp/pub/doc/packet-journey-2.4.html

Aris Sotiropoulos

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