On 4/17/2013 12:37 PM, Michael Haberler wrote:
> <...>
> I stumbled over this: http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/
>
> this is suggested reading for anybody interested in the field; if the 
> performance and ease of build (some drivers) hold up to the promise, this 
> could potentially do away with the need for special-purpose stacks by brute 
> force/speed of a much more general solution
>
> if the promise holds up:
>
>     With netmap, it takes as little as 60-65 clock cycles to move one packet 
> between the user program and the wire.
>     As an example, a single core running at 900 MHz can generate the 14.8 
> Mpps that saturate a 10 GigE interface.
>
>

Yeow. Hotter than a pistol and lives in user space. What a great find!

Regards,
Kent


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