Its going to be a huge task as Linux kernel networking is not just a layer it’s 
a subsystem which includes a lot of other stuff too.

From: Joel Cunningham
Sent: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 8:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [lwip-users] lwIP in mainline linux kernel

I haven't heard of LwIP running in the Linux kernel, but LwIP has been 
integrated into a number of other operating systems:
ReactOS
GNU Hurd
Minix 3

I haven't studied the ReactOS integration, but GNU Hurd/Minix 3 happened more 
recently and their respective developers communicated on the mailing list how 
LwIP was integrated :). Both are micro kernels and the integration point with 
LwIP is different.  GNU Hurd integrated at the sockets level where as Minix 3, 
integrated at the callback API level (providing their own socket interface).

I would imagine for Linux, you'd do something similar, integrating LwIP's 
callback API level to the kernel side sockets layer.  At the bottom end, you 
could possibly do something like map LwIP's netif to a netdev so you can use 
the existing Linux drivers.
Joel

On 02/05/2018 06:31 PM, vinay s wrote:
Hello All,

I am doing some source code evaluation (cycles spend in various blocks) of 
TCP/IP stack between linux network stack and lwip. I am able to run lwip in 
userspace, however for my requirement I would like to put lwip in mainline 
kernel (either as module or intergrated alternate stack), as running it in 
userspace fudges the numbers (preemption by high priority processes/interrupts 
etc).  I am curious as to if this has been already done (any pointers would be 
helpful).

Please note, I am not looking into lwip in rtos kernels (e.g, RTLinux/RTAI 
etc). 

Thanks,
vks



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