On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Andriy Gapon <a...@freebsd.org> wrote: > on 05/08/2011 17:56 Luigi Rizzo said the following: >> i asked permission to re@ to integrate it in 9.0 but it was considered >> a bit premature. >> However i am not too worried because the system dependencies are >> minimal and it changes no API/ABI or internal data structure so >> it is easy to add it at a later time. > > /rant > > I think that having real, useful in practice applications that make use of the > netmap would definitely speed up its adoption. > > Maybe I am too pessimistic here, but I don't foresee too many users of netmap > as > long as it remains just a mechanism that potentially can greatly speed up > things > if you manage to write your own applications that do those things via netmap. > Full TCP/IP stack with sockets API on top of it and lots of available > applications > on top of that is one thing, an interface to a network card is a totally > different > thing on a scale of usability (especially the by the end-users).
Netmap's scope may be narrow, but it's a great alternative to proprietary implementations that are provided by only a handful of vendors and tied to their hardware. I don't think Luigi foresees lots of users either, but having it in the base system is a lot better than not having it at all, IMHO. > > -- > Andriy Gapon > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > -- Good, fast & cheap. Pick any two. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
