[Xen-devel] Understanding netback packet transmission code

[Micky Kay <weirdbluelights@xxxxxxxxx>]

I figured that the net_tx_action function is the one that schedules packet transmission. I understood a fair portion of the code but for the call to netif_rx (netback.c:1454) after scheduling the tx_response and the update of the rx stats in the transmission function. I also noticed that netif_be_start_xmit function queues the sk_buff passed to it in the receive queue (rx_queue) and schedules the net_rx_tasklet (netback.c:336).

Could someone demystify all of this please? Thanks much.

- Micky
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