Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] net: low latency Ethernet device polling

From: Eliezer Tamir
Date: Wed Feb 27 2013 - 14:17:28 EST


On 27/02/2013 20:47, Tom Herbert wrote:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Stephen Hemminger
<stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Have you looked at netmap? Seems like a cleaner user API for this.

That might be a bit orthogonal to this. I believe the intent it to
allow spin polling from socket calls without API change.

Exactly.

BTW, an interesting alternative to netmap would be to map a VF into userspace. (you would need to pre-allocate DMA memory regions and all of that RDMA-like stuff)
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