From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kevin Bowling Subject: Re: netmap, VALE and netmap pipes Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:33:36 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20140217121440.21a96821@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:50468 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754310AbaBQUdt (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:33:49 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WFUst-0006BO-4c for netdev@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:33:47 +0100 Received: from tempe0.bbox.io ([24.249.180.233]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:33:47 +0100 Received: from kevin.bowling by tempe0.bbox.io with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:33:47 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20140217121440.21a96821@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 2/17/2014 1:14 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:12:36 -0700 > Kevin Bowling 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