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Date:      05 May 2005 09:41:25 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        Lei Luo <lluo@eecis.udel.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Where tcp_timer_rexmt() is called?
Message-ID:  <44hdhheqnu.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <42790067.7060307@eecis.udel.edu>
References:  <42790067.7060307@eecis.udel.edu>

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Lei Luo <lluo@eecis.udel.edu> writes:

> Does anyone know where the TCP retransmission function
> tcp_timer_rexmt() is called? In other words, where is the code that
> checks if a timer is timed out? In BSD4.3, there is a function called
> tcp_timers() in tcp_timer.c. But in the recent release, the function
> is removed. But where the functionality is placed now?

It's put into an event on the timeout queue, which is processed by the
softclock() routine.

-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/



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