On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 10:13:54PM +0100, Franco Fichtner wrote:
>
> > Hi Luigi,
> > hi all,
> >
> > so I was running into logistics issues with netmap(4)
> > with regard to zero-copy and redirection through pipes:
> > working on a loa
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 10:13:54PM +0100, Franco Fichtner wrote:
> Hi Luigi,
> hi all,
>
> so I was running into logistics issues with netmap(4)
> with regard to zero-copy and redirection through pipes:
> working on a load-balancing framework revealed that it
> is very hard to track a packet's or
Hi Luigi,
On 12 Nov 2014, at 00:00, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> apparently you want some user-defined metadata to move
> along with the packet, but i do not think it is
> reasonable to put it in the slots.
> If we do that, what about timestamps, flow IDs,
> interface and queue index and all the rest of
Franco,
apparently you want some user-defined metadata to move
along with the packet, but i do not think it is
reasonable to put it in the slots.
If we do that, what about timestamps, flow IDs,
interface and queue index and all the rest of the things that
we normally find in an mbuf/skbuf ? This is
On 11 Nov 2014, at 22:48, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Ah, I see. You're missing some unique identifier for each netmap
> buffer. I thought there was one already. Silly me.
Exactly, and, no, thank you for making clear what is needed. :)
A little more on this: I think struct netmap_slot is convenient
On 11 November 2014 13:41, Franco Fichtner wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
>
> On 11 Nov 2014, at 22:22, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>
>> ... I'm confused. Do you have the slot id already, right? Why not
>> allocate an array of userdata pointers somewhere else and just use the
>> netmap slot id as an indirection int
Hi Adrian,
On 11 Nov 2014, at 22:22, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> ... I'm confused. Do you have the slot id already, right? Why not
> allocate an array of userdata pointers somewhere else and just use the
> netmap slot id as an indirection into that?
The slot id is per ring and there are a lot of them
... I'm confused. Do you have the slot id already, right? Why not
allocate an array of userdata pointers somewhere else and just use the
netmap slot id as an indirection into that?
-adrian
On 11 November 2014 13:13, Franco Fichtner wrote:
> Hi Luigi,
> hi all,
>
> so I was running into logist
