[2454] in linux-net channel archive
Re: 1.3.81: strange routing cache (?) problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (really kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru)
Thu Apr 11 18:20:44 1996
From: inr-linux-net@ms2.inr.ac.ru (really kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru)
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: 11 Apr 1996 16:35:04 +0400
Jonathan Layes (layes@loran.COM) wrote:
: I haven't witnessed this yet, but I think I have an explanation. When
: I wrote the arpd code, I was convinced that all arpd lookups would
: never happen inside an interrupt. The only way to explain what you have
....
Really, arp lookup on interrupt is absolutely normal event.
I believe that it is kerneld interface that should handle
requests on interrupt properly. Apparently, it can be tuned
so that it will not try sleep on interrupt, but return something
a sort of EAGAIN.
Alexey Kuznetsov.
