Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:14:40 -0800 From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> To: Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netmap, VALE and netmap pipes Message-ID: <20140217121440.21a96821@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> In-Reply-To: <ldtmun$dqj$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <CA%2BhQ2%2Bgbs9aBneUaDGAnKVoPHspzc=5o%2Bh%2Bf_K=T%2BCy8sRxr%2Bw@mail.gmail.com> <ldtmun$dqj$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:12:36 -0700 Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> 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.
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