Introducing netmap: line-rate packet send/receive at 10Gbit/s

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 08:33:51PM +0430, Hooman Fazaeli wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the work.
> 
> Is source for driver patches available?

yes, see the links at

http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/


> On 6/3/2011 3:01 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> >Hi,
> >we have recently worked on a project, called netmap, which lets
> >FreeBSD send/receive packets at line rate even at 10 Gbit/s with
> >very low CPU overhead: one core at 1.33 GHz does 14.88 Mpps with a
> >modified ixgbe driver, which gives plenty of CPU cycles to handle
> >multiple interface and/or do useful work (packet forwarding, analysis, 
> >etc.)
> >
> >You can find full documentation and source code and even a picobsd image at
> >
> >         http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/
> >
> >The system uses memory mapped packet buffers to reduce the cost of
> >data movements, but this would not be enough to make it useful or
> >novel.  Netmap uses many other small but important tricks to make
> >the system fast, safe and easy to use, and support transmission,
> >reception, and communication with the host stack.
> >
> >You can see full details in  documentation at the above link.
> >
> >Feedback welcome.
> >
> >	cheers
> >	luigi
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