From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 21 15:55:11 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@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 C1AD25C6; Thu, 21 May 2015 15:55:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from onelab2.iet.unipi.it (onelab2.iet.unipi.it [131.114.59.238]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88F221FC5; Thu, 21 May 2015 15:55:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by onelab2.iet.unipi.it (Postfix, from userid 275) id B67FD7300A; Thu, 21 May 2015 18:02:13 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 18:02:13 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo To: current@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, g.lettieri@iet.unipi.it, stefanogarzarella@gmail.com Subject: heads up: netmap code update next week. Message-ID: <20150521160213.GD66725@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 15:55:11 -0000 Hi, some time next week we will push to head (and hopefully, to stable/10 before the code slush) an update to the netmap code. There will be no API changes, and the changes are mostly internal restructuring of the netmap kernel code and simplification of device drivers (we will ll handle most of them ourselves and talk to Navdeep for the chelsio bits). These changes are needed to ease upcoming work on separate memory allocators, and the passthrough code which we are working on. If anyone has local diffs that would like to submit, please let us know so we can merge them as well if appropriate cheers luigi