At 07:52 AM 1/17/2005, Toru Nishimura wrote:
>xxxstart()
>takes off a mbuf from ifnet transmit Q, prepare descriptors (if HW has),
>and tell Tx HW it to send.

xxxstart needs to take as many packets from the if_sndq as it can place
in the transmit queue.  There is not a 1:1 correspondence between calls
to xxxstart and packets placed in the interface send queue.  (fragmented
IP packets will place more than 1, for instance).


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