From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: netmap, VALE and netmap pipes Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:14:40 -0800 Message-ID: <20140217121440.21a96821@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, freebsd-net@freebsd.org To: Kevin Bowling Return-path: Received: from mail-pd0-f173.google.com ([209.85.192.173]:60374 "EHLO mail-pd0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753222AbaBQUOo (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:14:44 -0500 Received: by mail-pd0-f173.google.com with SMTP id y10so15237184pdj.18 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:14:43 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 You do not understand the role of Linux Foundation. Lobbying would only serve to annoy the developers. 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.