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Date:      Thu, 26 Oct 2017 13:01:42 -0400
From:      Joe Buehler <aspam@cox.net>
To:        Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: virtio_net / netmap RX dropping frames
Message-ID:  <59F214F6.9060905@cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <SF4W1w01W4AyWt501FCR3Y>
References:  <59F0FBEE.6030008@cox.net> <59F1F1BA.3020608@cox.net> <SF4W1w01W4AyWt501FCR3Y>

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Vincenzo Maffione wrote:
> So you are using netmap only in the guest (and not in the host).
> And you are running a sender and a receiver inside the VM, both on the
> VM interface.
> Something like this
> 
> # pkt-gen -i eth1 -f rx
> # pkt-gen -i eth1 -f tx

Yes that's the basic idea.

> 
> ?
> What happens if you use pkt-gen rather than your application?

I was under the impression that I can't have two threads in the netmap
kernel code at the same time so can't do that.

Joe Buehler



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