Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:03:45 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: High Network Perfomance Message-ID: <4E3C0651.9070307@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20110805145626.GB13217@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> References: <CANpwN=ticS53Z43rWVbtDU18cRtWH6sOE%2BfhJaS4LenTfZ=gpg@mail.gmail.com> <20110805002732.GA5340@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <201108051628.19884.pieter@degoeje.nl> <20110805145626.GB13217@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
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on 05/08/2011 17:56 Luigi Rizzo said the following: > i asked permission to re@ to integrate it in 9.0 but it was considered > a bit premature. > However i am not too worried because the system dependencies are > minimal and it changes no API/ABI or internal data structure so > it is easy to add it at a later time. /rant I think that having real, useful in practice applications that make use of the netmap would definitely speed up its adoption. Maybe I am too pessimistic here, but I don't foresee too many users of netmap as long as it remains just a mechanism that potentially can greatly speed up things if you manage to write your own applications that do those things via netmap. Full TCP/IP stack with sockets API on top of it and lots of available applications on top of that is one thing, an interface to a network card is a totally different thing on a scale of usability (especially the by the end-users). -- Andriy Gapon
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