Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 17:23:37 +0200 From: Vlad Galu <dudu@dudu.ro> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: High Network Perfomance Message-ID: <CA%2BFTnKN_dT2-y%2BOZHZV5TPKRb8oE8VOAVK__J-1dY1syxcQDvA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E3C0651.9070307@FreeBSD.org> 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> <4E3C0651.9070307@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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). Netmap's scope may be narrow, but it's a great alternative to proprietary implementations that are provided by only a handful of vendors and tied to their hardware. I don't think Luigi foresees lots of users either, but having it in the base system is a lot better than not having it at all, IMHO. > > -- > Andriy Gapon > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Good, fast & cheap. Pick any two.
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