Hi Luigi,
On 12 Nov 2014, at 00:00, Luigi Rizzo ri...@iet.unipi.it 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
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 origins
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Slawa Olhovchenkov s...@zxy.spb.ru 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
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 origins to later move
it onward to the respective outgoing interface, be it
... 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 fra...@lastsummer.de wrote:
Hi Luigi,
hi all,
so I was
Hi Adrian,
On 11 Nov 2014, at 22:22, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org 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
On 11 November 2014 13:41, Franco Fichtner fra...@lastsummer.de wrote:
Hi Adrian,
On 11 Nov 2014, at 22:22, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org 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
On 11 Nov 2014, at 22:48, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org 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
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
