Subject: Re: understanding spl levels
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/29/2004 14:37:45
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 02:34:13PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> I did, but test for splsoftnet wasn't clear that it's for protocol
> processing. Should we add that to the manpage?

It's not only protocol processing, though the border is not a very sharp one.
It's more like splnet() is network interfaces hardware interrupts, and
everything network related that does not need to run at splnet uses
splsoftnet.

Martin