From: Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009•com>
To: netdev@vger•kernel.org
Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd•org
Subject: Re: netmap, VALE and netmap pipes
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:33:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ldtrmj$5vq$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140217121440.21a96821@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
On 2/17/2014 1:14 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:12:36 -0700
> Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009•com> wrote:
>
>> On 2/17/2014 3:11 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> we have recently made a few extensions to netmap/VALE and put various
>>> pieces of code on public repositories, so i thought i'd share the
>>> pointers. All the code below runs with equal features and performance
>>> on FreeBSD and Linux, and we are trying to upstream it in the relevant
>>> projects if possible (as an example, QEMU recently added a netmap backend),
>>> at which point some of these clone repositories will become unnecessary.
>>
>> Just a thought, maybe this is a good time for The FreeBSD Foundation to
>> reach out to The Linux Foundation for lobbying netmap into their main
>> line kernel. It would be nice if netmap becomes the de facto UNIX
>> standard for this type of programming (it is vendor neutral and broadly
>> applicable vs other solutions), and avoid not-invented-here APIs like
>> non-blocking I/O went through with all the UNIX flavors.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kevin Bowling
Hi Stephen,
> You do not understand the role of Linux Foundation.
> Lobbying would only serve to annoy the developers.
I attempted to say that with tongue in cheek and am sorry if I offended
anyone.
> Netmap was submitted and rejected for a number of issues.
> Read the netdev mailing list archives if you want to follow what
> is going on.
I am not familiar with the situation on the Linux side. My hope is that
the opportunity window is not lost if there is a possibility for one API
on both platforms.
Regards,
Kevin Bowling
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-17 20:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-17 10:11 netmap, VALE and netmap pipes Luigi Rizzo
2014-02-17 19:12 ` Kevin Bowling
2014-02-17 20:14 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-02-17 20:33 ` Kevin Bowling [this message]
2014-02-22 1:03 ` jerry
2014-02-22 1:08 ` Luigi Rizzo
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2014-02-17 10:15 Luigi Rizzo
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