is polling still a thing?

[Antoine Beaupré]

On 2015-01-27 18:32:40, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> A netmap-aware NIC has no problem dealing with high PPS rates,
> deliver them through the fat pipe HHH to netmap-ipfw in userspace,
> which does the filtering and drops the junk.  The remaining part
> is reinjected  through another netmap port into the host stack,
> which is the actual bottleneck.  Presumably at this point the amount
> of residual traffic is sustainable by the kernel.  netmap-ipfw is
> simmetric so it supports traffic in the other direction too.
> another host netmap port. Presumably at thi

[trimmed?]

uh! so that's pretty amazing. :) is there some tutorial that's available
for this somewhere? i looked briefly at the netmap-ipfw README, and
couldn't quite figure it out.

thanks!

a.

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