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From: | Luigi Rizzo |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] net: Adding netmap network backend |
Date: | Mon, 4 Nov 2013 10:08:19 -0800 |
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Vincenzo Maffione <address@hidden> wrote:I don't think it's a good idea to support this on Linux hosts. This
> This patch adds support for a network backend based on netmap.
> netmap is a framework for high speed packet I/O. You can use it
> to build extremely fast traffic generators, monitors, software
> switches or network middleboxes. Its companion software switch
> VALE lets you interconnect virtual machines.
> netmap and VALE are implemented as a non intrusive kernel module,
> support NICs from multiple vendors, are part of standard FreeBSD
> distributions and available in source format for Linux too.
is an out of tree module that most likely will never go upstream.
I don't want to live through another kqemu with this if it eventually
starts to bit-rot.
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