Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 15:23:49 -0700 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> To: David <dajose22@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: help porting netmap to new driver Message-ID: <CA%2BhQ2%2Bi7ku0bmZqs2yBLH=4orFtoKzwTYwA8EPPPiyLLpr681Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAHYV_8w-xtPakGOuOhiLMKOkGZ8PFVAgtBu6F2hkNPQN5VP9Qw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAHYV_8w-xtPakGOuOhiLMKOkGZ8PFVAgtBu6F2hkNPQN5VP9Qw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 3:18 PM, David <dajose22@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm needing to use netmap on a custom driver, I don't understand the > content of the functions I need to implement and that are detailed on > "PORTING" file. > > sometimes (often, actually) the hw has bottlenecks that make native netmap mode almost useless. One thing you could try is the "emulated netmap mode" which is used by default if the driver has no native support. This is in the code on code.google.com/p/netmap/ , the branch "next" (which is basically the code now in FreeBSD) has some fixes for that specific feature cheers luigi can someone give a hand to understand it better? > > regards > > -- > David Díaz Barquero > > Ingeniería en Computadores > Tecnológico de Costa Rica > _______________________________________________ > 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" -- -----------------------------------------+------------------------------- Prof. Luigi RIZZO, rizzo@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . Universita` di Pisa TEL +39-050-2211611 . via Diotisalvi 2 Mobile +39-338-6809875 . 56122 PISA (Italy) -----------------------------------------+-------------------------------
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