From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Deri Subject: Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel? Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:34:17 +0200 Message-ID: References: <903D7FEC-34E8-4F70-ABC0-E56A3A5FBBE6@ntop.org> <20091014.131526.181354809.davem@davemloft.net> <20091014.132911.174712308.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1076) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: bcook@bpointsys.com, brad.doctor@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from jake.unipi.it ([131.114.21.22]:40709 "EHLO jake.ntop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751487AbZJNUfA (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:35:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20091014.132911.174712308.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: David so do you want me to start porting PF_RING facilities into PF_PACKET? As I have said I;m not against this: my goal is to include this work into the linux kernel, as it has been separate for too long. Luca On Oct 14, 2009, at 10:29 PM, David Miller wrote: > From: Luca Deri > Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:26:25 +0200 > >> I agree that some PF_RING features could be merged into >> PF_PACKET. However PF_RING is not just about improving packet capture >> but it implements facilities that can be used by many monitoring >> applications including, packet balancing, reflection, layer-7 packet >> filtering, pf_ring socket clustering just to name a few. You can read >> about PF_RING feature into this tutorial: >> http://luca.ntop.org/IM2009_Tutorial.pdf > > I've already researched several times what PF_RING does and > is capable of doing, and my position still stands that none of > it can't be added to existing facilities. > > It's been an out of tree hack for years, and if it stays as > a seperate facility it's likely to stay that way.