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19 years ago

Delayed ethernet packet processing (bug?)

As reported to bugzilla: If the priority of the ethernet driver thread is lower (higher# ) than the FreeBSD Network Thread, then the Network Thread can get prematurely woken up to process an in...
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19 years ago

Actually, this seems to be a problem if any network thread calling select(), such as tftp and probably most others, are at a lower priority (higher# ) than the FreeBSD Network Thread.