netmap support removed from ixl?

Luigi Rizzo rizzo at iet.unipi.it
Wed Jan 13 03:51:22 UTC 2016


i think it was committed to HEAD but never integrated in the
stable/10.x branch. I wrote the code in jan/feb 2015.

I think you can simply backport the driver from head.

cheers
luigi

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 6:08 PM, Garrett Wollman <wollman at bimajority.org> wrote:
> I see from various searches that netmap support was added to ixl(4) --
> *but* the code isn't there in 10.2.  I'd like to be able to use it for
> packet capture, because regular BPF on this interface (XL710) isn't
> even able to keep up with 2 Gbit/s, never mind 20 Gbit/s.  Can anyone
> explain what happened -- was this code simply never integrated, or did
> it get blown away in some later Intel vendor import?
>
> -GAWollman
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