FreeBSD & Netmap Advocacy on Nanog
Eduardo Meyer <[email protected]>
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Hello, I don't know who follows NANOG, but a recent discussion raised a positive position much likely suitable to the advocacy mailing list, concerning FreeBSD Netmap vs Intel DPDK and so on. I believe it's worth sharing this guy's point of view and case: http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2015-January/072864.html I quite agre with those statements, and I specially agree with this excerpts: "I honestly hope a fraction of this million dollar donated to FreeBSD Foundation from WhatsApp founder goes on research and enhancements for Netmap technology. It's the most promising networking technology I have seen in the last years, and it goes straight to what FreeBSD does best: networking performance. It's not a coincidence that since the beginning of Internet, top Internet traffic servers, from Yahoo! to WhatsApp and Netflix, run FreeBSD. I don't know how important decisions can be addressed concerning adding to a Netmap stack a superset of full forwarding capability along with lagg(4), vlan(4), Q-in-Q, maybe carp(4) and other lightweight but still very kernel-path choppy features. But I hope FreeBSD engineers take good decisions on assigning those issues. And address time, funds and goals to Netmap. For now, however, if you really want a relatively new and innovative technology with actual code to use and run, ready and available, this is my suggestion: FreeBSD+Netmap." I completely agree Netmap is promising, innovative and adds incomparable potentials for FreeBSD in the future and hope FreeBSD (Foundation & Project) gives some extra attention future netmap enhancements. I also agree Netmap has proven itself with more usable code, utilities and samples provided by Professor Luigi Rizzo than Intel DPDK and Linux stuff (aka DNA). -- =========== Eduardo Meyer pessoal: [email protected] profissional: [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"