From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 28 20:40:17 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 63AA6D18; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 20:40:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qg0-x22c.google.com (mail-qg0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c04::22c]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1FC70B12; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 20:40:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qg0-f44.google.com with SMTP id l89so19218216qgf.3; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 12:40:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=WyTcjkcss4RPfC5hhHrgHxw00vIWjMgd0mARYRNMLYY=; b=wLGkYPpcOke0wr1vJi3El4L3K3AETwrd2Zz04/WH0nSQbmmZsyu4z47oMBW3MF0uTT k7ooMNMJvHe0KL879IFaASJrZMwPv2l21gPWexdyO4EIMFJbiWULxeOxqYj/iMxmGvxd xpXS1dbVAmDLB4e/dBOJQvX34WDr0rpykv7/ySOAUmb+HEmu9y+BDYckuZO26ENygdlH 8NuwEvYeTQb8sMndNV0/Y5cxQyrH85mvXPgB8s+Gg3JO1l1nDcYyTyYna9LjeBTPkHWV sl+g1Ua70cExGXo6z8J47LSlCDJOuasnooCcNs+wC4bNsJRlAzhTJskwSILpJybb8Qgk +mOw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.224.23.6 with SMTP id p6mr527747qab.55.1422477616225; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 12:40:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.96.65.69 with HTTP; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 12:40:16 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:40:16 -0200 Message-ID: Subject: FreeBSD & Netmap Advocacy on Nanog From: Eduardo Meyer To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 20:40:17 -0000 Hello, I don't know who follows NANOG, but a recent discussion raised a positive position much likely suitable to the advocacy mailing list, concerning FreeBSD Netmap vs Intel DPDK and so on. I believe it's worth sharing this guy's point of view and case: http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2015-January/072864.html I quite agre with those statements, and I specially agree with this excerpts: "I honestly hope a fraction of this million dollar donated to FreeBSD Foundation from WhatsApp founder goes on research and enhancements for Netmap technology. It's the most promising networking technology I have seen in the last years, and it goes straight to what FreeBSD does best: networking performance. It's not a coincidence that since the beginning of Internet, top Internet traffic servers, from Yahoo! to WhatsApp and Netflix, run FreeBSD. I don't know how important decisions can be addressed concerning adding to a Netmap stack a superset of full forwarding capability along with lagg(4), vlan(4), Q-in-Q, maybe carp(4) and other lightweight but still very kernel-path choppy features. But I hope FreeBSD engineers take good decisions on assigning those issues. And address time, funds and goals to Netmap. For now, however, if you really want a relatively new and innovative technology with actual code to use and run, ready and available, this is my suggestion: FreeBSD+Netmap." I completely agree Netmap is promising, innovative and adds incomparable potentials for FreeBSD in the future and hope FreeBSD (Foundation & Project) gives some extra attention future netmap enhancements. I also agree Netmap has proven itself with more usable code, utilities and samples provided by Professor Luigi Rizzo than Intel DPDK and Linux stuff (aka DNA). -- =========== Eduardo Meyer pessoal: dudu.meyer@gmail.com profissional: ddm.farmaciap@saude.gov.br