netdev - Re: netmap, VALE and netmap pipes

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Message-ID: <20140217121440.21a96821@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
Date:	Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:14:40 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@...009.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, freebsd-net@...ebsd.org
Subject: Re: netmap, VALE and netmap pipes

On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:12:36 -0700
Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@...009.com> wrote:

> On 2/17/2014 3:11 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > Hi,
> > we have recently made a few extensions to netmap/VALE and put various
> > pieces of code on public repositories, so i thought i'd share the
> > pointers. All the code below runs with equal features and performance
> > on FreeBSD and Linux, and we are trying to upstream it in the relevant
> > projects if possible (as an example, QEMU recently added a netmap backend),
> > at which point some of these clone repositories will become unnecessary.
> 
> Just a thought, maybe this is a good time for The FreeBSD Foundation to 
> reach out to The Linux Foundation for lobbying netmap into their main 
> line kernel.  It would be nice if netmap becomes the de facto UNIX 
> standard for this type of programming (it is vendor neutral and broadly 
> applicable vs other solutions), and avoid not-invented-here APIs like 
> non-blocking I/O went through with all the UNIX flavors.
> 
> Regards,
> Kevin Bowling

You do not understand the role of Linux Foundation.
Lobbying would only serve to annoy the developers.

Netmap was submitted and rejected for a number of issues.
Read the netdev mailing list archives if you want to follow what
is going on.

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