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Re: Q: sock output serialization

To: hadi@xxxxxxxxxx (jamal)
Subject: Re: Q: sock output serialization
From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 23:40:13 +0100 (BST)
Cc: eis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Henner Eisen), alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, davem@xxxxxxxxxx, kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <Pine.GSO.4.20.0009161805100.9880-100000@shell.cyberus.ca> from "jamal" at Sep 16, 2000 06:38:49 PM
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> > With the current scheme, lapb first acknowleges reception of the frame
> > and after that, netif_rx() might still discard it -- which is evil.
> 
> This might screw things a bit. Can you defer to say first call
> netif_rx() then acknowledge or is this hard-coded into the f/ware?

I think its fixable to make it do the RR/RNR after bouncing it up the stack.

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