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Date:      Tue, 27 Jan 2015 19:29:14 -0500
From:      Antoine =?utf-8?Q?Beaupr=C3=A9?= <anarcat@koumbit.org>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, wishmaster <artemrts@ukr.net>
Subject:   Re: is polling still a thing?
Message-ID:  <87bnljbvdx.fsf@marcos.anarc.at>
In-Reply-To: <20150127233240.GA22364@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
References:  <871tmgceup.fsf@marcos.anarc.at> <1422384769.867067950.y2iiuu53@frv34.fwdcdn.com> <87pp9zc1wk.fsf@marcos.anarc.at> <20150127223917.GA21883@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <87h9vbbze1.fsf@marcos.anarc.at> <20150127233240.GA22364@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>

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On 2015-01-27 18:32:40, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> A netmap-aware NIC has no problem dealing with high PPS rates,
> deliver them through the fat pipe HHH to netmap-ipfw in userspace,
> which does the filtering and drops the junk.  The remaining part
> is reinjected  through another netmap port into the host stack,
> which is the actual bottleneck.  Presumably at this point the amount
> of residual traffic is sustainable by the kernel.  netmap-ipfw is
> simmetric so it supports traffic in the other direction too.
> another host netmap port. Presumably at thi

[trimmed?]

uh! so that's pretty amazing. :) is there some tutorial that's available
for this somewhere? i looked briefly at the netmap-ipfw README, and
couldn't quite figure it out.

thanks!

a.

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