Re: User Space Network Drivers

2013-10-05 Thread Richard Weinberger 
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 5:32 PM, james jones  wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Is there any work being done on a kernel module for generic packet
> processing in user space?

Using VFIO you can do a pure userspace NIC driver.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard

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Re: User Space Network Drivers

2013-10-03 Thread Bjørn Mork 
james jones  writes:

> Is there any work being done on a kernel module for generic packet
> processing in user space?

Like the "Universal TUN/TAP device driver", you mean?


Bjørn

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User Space Network Drivers

2013-10-03 Thread james jones 
Greetings,

Is there any work being done on a kernel module for generic packet
processing in user space?

-James
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