Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 09:32:00 +0530 From: Dheeraj Kandula <dkandula@gmail.com> To: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org> Cc: luigi@freebsd.org, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@freebsd.org>, Steve Kiernan <stevek@juniper.net>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, zec@freebsd.org, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Subject: Re: [JNPR] Network stack as a module (RFC) Message-ID: <CA%2BqNgxQPFLrCTAnChDinmZaxi24-Jt1qP51JBhMdViAtXSa3ig@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20131119114531.GF7577@glebius.int.ru> References: <CC6EF6B2.1917A%anshukla@juniper.net> <f1d8693fa83965f0d4a485a2db7e603b@novexsolutions.com> <50F868FF.5060506@networx.ch> <20131115165210.23f82578@stevek-ubuntu> <20131116084919.GF7577@glebius.int.ru> <1DAF9090-08DA-404B-B86B-57E5D124D70D@xcllnt.net> <20131118164149.GV7577@glebius.int.ru> <20131118143508.0253e663@stevek-ubuntu> <20131119114531.GF7577@glebius.int.ru>
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Is there a link explaining about what changes have gone into this huge Diff. That would help people like me to figure out what is being addressed in the diff. I get the point that the whole network stack will be a loadable module now. Isn't it? On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org> wrote: > Steve, > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 02:35:08PM -0500, Steve Kiernan wrote: > S> > Have you measured the performance impact on the loadable stack? I > S> > suppose many functions, that are now called directly, with loadable > S> > stack will be called via functon pointers. > S> > S> No, only a small number of functions were needed to be methods in a > S> netstack kobj in the current implementation that we have. And some of > S> those may need to change, as they revolve around NFS exports. > S> > S> Currently, we have four (4) methods that are needed: > S> socreate > S> vfs_export > S> vfs_setpublicfs > S> vfs_stdcheckexp > S> > S> When one is not dealing with NFS exports, only the socreate method is > S> of interest. It is called just before mac_socket_create() would be > S> called in socreate(). > > Sounds okay. Thank you. > > S> See http://people.freebsd.org/~marcel/Juniper/netstack-v2.diff, which > S> is the full patch set that had been previously sent out. Some things > S> have changed a bit since then, but if you look for curnetstack usage > S> in the patch, you should be able to see the places where netsack > S> methods are called. > > The patch is quite huge to understand it as a whole. :) > > -- > Totus tuus, Glebius. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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