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* release a reference when stopping a monitorLuigi Rizzo2015-07-191-0/+1
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* Sync netmap sources with the version in our private tree.Luigi Rizzo2015-07-101-181/+532
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit contains large contributions from Giuseppe Lettieri and Stefano Garzarella, is partly supported by grants from Verisign and Cisco, and brings in the following: - fix zerocopy monitor ports and introduce copying monitor ports (the latter are lower performance but give access to all traffic in parallel with the application) - exclusive open mode, useful to implement solutions that recover from crashes of the main netmap client (suggested by Patrick Kelsey) - revised memory allocator in preparation for the 'passthrough mode' (ptnetmap) recently presented at bsdcan. ptnetmap is described in S. Garzarella, G. Lettieri, L. Rizzo; Virtual device passthrough for high speed VM networking, ACM/IEEE ANCS 2015, Oakland (CA) May 2015 http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/research.html - fix rx CRC handing on ixl - add module dependencies for netmap when building drivers as modules - minor simplifications to device-specific routines (*txsync, *rxsync) - general code cleanup (remove unused variables, introduce macros to access rings and remove duplicate code, Applications do not need to be recompiled, unless of course they want to use the new features (monitors and exclusive open). Those willing to try this code on stable/10 can just update the sys/dev/netmap/*, sys/net/netmap* with the version in HEAD and apply the small patches to individual device drivers. MFC after: 1 month Sponsored by: (partly) Verisign, Cisco Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=285349
* we need full barriers hereLuigi Rizzo2014-11-131-2/+2
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* Update to the current version of netmap.Luigi Rizzo2014-08-161-0/+498
Mostly bugfixes or features developed in the past 6 months, so this is a 10.1 candidate. Basically no user API changes (some bugfixes in sys/net/netmap_user.h). In detail: 1. netmap support for virtio-net, including in netmap mode. Under bhyve and with a netmap backend [2] we reach over 1Mpps with standard APIs (e.g. libpcap), and 5-8 Mpps in netmap mode. 2. (kernel) add support for multiple memory allocators, so we can better partition physical and virtual interfaces giving access to separate users. The most visible effect is one additional argument to the various kernel functions to compute buffer addresses. All netmap-supported drivers are affected, but changes are mechanical and trivial 3. (kernel) simplify the prototype for *txsync() and *rxsync() driver methods. All netmap drivers affected, changes mostly mechanical. 4. add support for netmap-monitor ports. Think of it as a mirroring port on a physical switch: a netmap monitor port replicates traffic present on the main port. Restrictions apply. Drive carefully. 5. if_lem.c: support for various paravirtualization features, experimental and disabled by default. Most of these are described in our ANCS'13 paper [1]. Paravirtualized support in netmap mode is new, and beats the numbers in the paper by a large factor (under qemu-kvm, we measured gues-host throughput up to 10-12 Mpps). A lot of refactoring and additional documentation in the files in sys/dev/netmap, but apart from #2 and #3 above, almost nothing of this stuff is visible to other kernel parts. Example programs in tools/tools/netmap have been updated with bugfixes and to support more of the existing features. This is meant to go into 10.1 so we plan an MFC before the Aug.22 deadline. A lot of this code has been contributed by my colleagues at UNIPI, including Giuseppe Lettieri, Vincenzo Maffione, Stefano Garzarella. MFC after: 3 days. Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=270063