Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 15:24:56 +0000 (UTC) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r307571 - head/share/man/man4 Message-ID: <201610181524.u9IFOutA045062@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: luigi Date: Tue Oct 18 15:24:56 2016 New Revision: 307571 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/307571 Log: fix a stale sentence in the manpage Modified: head/share/man/man4/netmap.4 Modified: head/share/man/man4/netmap.4 ============================================================================== --- head/share/man/man4/netmap.4 Tue Oct 18 15:14:46 2016 (r307570) +++ head/share/man/man4/netmap.4 Tue Oct 18 15:24:56 2016 (r307571) @@ -828,9 +828,9 @@ Performance is inferior to native netmap mode but still significantly higher than various raw socket types (bpf, PF_PACKET, etc.). Note that for slow devices (such as 1 Gbit/s and slower NICs, -or several 10 Gbit/s NICs whose hardware is unable -that of in-kernel solutions such as Linux's -.Xr pktgen . +or several 10 Gbit/s NICs whose hardware is unable to sustain line rate), +emulated and native mode will likely have similar or same throughput. +.br When emulation is in use, packet sniffer programs such as tcpdump could see received packets before they are diverted by netmap. This behaviour is not intentional, being just an artifact of the implementation of emulation.
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