Re: netmap for linux now available
Outback Dingo <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Luigi Rizzo <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:26:56PM -0500, Outback Dingo wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Luigi Rizzo <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > if i remember correctly you were somehow interested in a linux >> > version of netmap. ?An initial prototype is now ready and you can >> > find it at the usual place: >> > >> > ? ? ? ?http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ >> > >> > Feel free to try it. Feedback welcome. >> > >> >> Actually our curiosity is if netmap would be viable for say an atheros >> 80211N wireless interface, with click as the forwarding engine. >> Thoughts?? > > maybe not worth the effort -- what packet rates can you have on > an 11N, after all... Well moving towards 80211ac at 2G wireless on a 600mhz mips soc ib be curious if theres enough cpu to push the packets, in our cloud environment being 1g and 10g interfaces well it just makes sense to utilize netmap, but we do wireless development also so i was pondering the concept