<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hello All,<br><br></div>I am clear all that the softirq is a software interrupt :<br></div>Whenever a system call is about to return to the user space or h/w interrupt exit,ant s/w interrupt which are marked pending are run.<br>
<br></div>Now in networking code i found<br><br><div><div><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px">
open_softirq(NET_TX_SOFTIRQ, net_tx_action, NULL);<br><br></pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px">
What does this do?<br><br></pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px">
Thanks<br></pre></div></div></div>