FreeBSD 5 ip_gre and netisr_enable=1
Robert Watson
rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Fri Aug 26 21:09:25 GMT 2005
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, ming fu wrote:
> when a GRE packet gets into the ip_gre2(), its gre header is stripped
> and sent to netisr_dispatch() for ip_input() processing again. In case,
> the net.isr.enable is 1, the packet will be delivered to ip_input
> directly instead of put in the queue.
Probably, we should use netisr_queue() here instead of netisr_dispatch()
to force indirect dispatch in this case? The _dispatch() variant should
only be used when the calling context is willing to perform a full netisr
dispatch.
Robert N M Watson
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