Introducing netmap: line-rate packet send/receive at 10Gbit/s

[Vlad Galu]

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo at iet.unipi.it> wrote:

> Hi,
> we have recently worked on a project, called netmap, which lets
> FreeBSD send/receive packets at line rate even at 10 Gbit/s with
> very low CPU overhead: one core at 1.33 GHz does 14.88 Mpps with a
> modified ixgbe driver, which gives plenty of CPU cycles to handle
> multiple interface and/or do useful work (packet forwarding, analysis,
> etc.)
>
> You can find full documentation and source code and even a picobsd image at
>
>        http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/
>
> The system uses memory mapped packet buffers to reduce the cost of
> data movements, but this would not be enough to make it useful or
> novel.  Netmap uses many other small but important tricks to make
> the system fast, safe and easy to use, and support transmission,
> reception, and communication with the host stack.
>
> You can see full details in  documentation at the above link.
>
> Feedback welcome.
>
>        cheers
>        luigi
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This is great news, Luigi! Thank you for your work!

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