Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] net: low latency Ethernet device polling

From: Eliezer Tamir <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:17:17 +0200

On 27/02/2013 20:47, Tom Herbert wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Stephen Hemminger
> <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>
>> Have you looked at netmap? Seems like a cleaner user API for this.
>>
> That might be a bit orthogonal to this.  I believe the intent it to
> allow spin polling from socket calls without API change.

Exactly.

BTW, an interesting alternative to netmap would be to map a VF into 
userspace. (you would need to pre-allocate DMA memory regions and all of 
that RDMA-like stuff)