| Date | Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:17:17 +0200 | From | Eliezer Tamir <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] net: low latency Ethernet device polling |
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On 27/02/2013 20:47, Tom Herbert wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Stephen Hemminger > <stephen@networkplumber.org> 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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