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Subject: Re: Query Regarding Netmap
From: Robert Clove <cloverobert@gmail.com>
To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
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Dear Sir,

Thanks for the reply.
Following things i need from you:
where to get the module for netmap.
How to apply it?
So according to you fro mellanox card i should not apply the patch on Linux
just install the netmap?

Regards



On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> wrote:

>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Robert Clove <cloverobert@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Sir,
>>
>> I am a student and i am working on a project in which we have mellanox N=
IC
>> cards.
>> Is your netmap supported on Mellanox?
>> If yes, how to load the netmap driver,where to get the files....
>>
>
> =E2=80=8Bhi,
> i had some mellanox patches to support netmap natively, but only for linu=
x.
> This said, the card seems unable to go beyond ~7Mpps so you might still
> get similar results with the emulated netmap mode, which only uses
> the netmap kernel module without any driver modification.
>
> Cheers
> luigi
> =E2=80=8B
>
>>
>>