Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 10:19:04 -0700 From: Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> Cc: FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Prashant Upadhyaya <praupadhyaya@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Regarding Netmap in VM Message-ID: <CAFOYbckgqs3K=vJof=2Qx0qfH2qDjiMewHsCz8Ybi%2BH7%2Ba2KCQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BhQ2%2BhLyB1Obvj1u4oHPFS5To_g4hq9LunH7u4TLNQGXk_zGA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAPBAu3XfYXV8Y0y2pudvRtprwh0VzpSqK%2BiR_yi5EmMVrC6MOw@mail.gmail.com> <20140526170643.GE40172@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <CAFOYbckX72sn0fb%2BMbLtN3bjEcHBtFn0US8GGJs5bmKmbGAE-w@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2BhQ2%2BhLyB1Obvj1u4oHPFS5To_g4hq9LunH7u4TLNQGXk_zGA@mail.gmail.com>
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Ya, it might be nice to do a bunch of cleanup like that, maybe once the i40e release happens I'll have some time to look into that. Jack On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 2:49 AM, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 5:00 AM, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I don't think we've ever tried this at Intel either. I had meant to check >> the ixv code to >> see if it had your code in it Luigi but got distracted, if it doesn't >> then it obviously can't >> work for the case of a VM. >> > > ixv.c does not contain the netmap hooks though it might be > relatively straightforward to add them, possibly reusing > the same netmap hooks and support functions used in ixgbe.c > > As a matter of fact, there seems to be a large amount > of duplicated code between ixv.c and ixgbe.c, > so i wonder whether it makes sense to remove the duplication and > use just a single copy of the common parts ? > > cheers > luigi >
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