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/*
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It is 2014 and we have a new version of netmap.
Most relevant features:
- netmap emulation on any NIC, even those without native netmap support.
On the ixgbe we have measured about 4Mpps/core/queue in this mode,
which is still a lot more than with sockets/bpf.
- seamless interconnection of VALE switch, NICs and host stack.
If you disable accelerations on your NIC (say em0)
ifconfig em0 -txcsum -txcsum
you can use the VALE switch to connect the NIC and the host stack:
vale-ctl -h valeXX:em0
allowing sharing the NIC with other netmap clients.
- THE USER API HAS SLIGHTLY CHANGED (head/cur/tail pointers
instead of pointers/count as before). This was unavoidable to support,
in the future, multiple threads operating on the same rings.
Netmap clients require very small source code changes to compile again.
On the plus side, the new API should be easier to understand
and the internals are a lot simpler.
The manual page has been updated extensively to reflect the current
features and give some examples.
This is the result of work of several people including Giuseppe Lettieri,
Vincenzo Maffione, Michio Honda and myself, and has been financially
supported by EU projects CHANGE and OPENLAB, from NetApp University
Research Fund, NEC, and of course the Universita` di Pisa.
2014-01-06 12:53:15 +00:00
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* Copyright (C) 2012-2014 Matteo Landi, Luigi Rizzo, Giuseppe Lettieri. All rights reserved.
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*
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* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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* modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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* are met:
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* 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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* notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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* 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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* notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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* documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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* THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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/*
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* $FreeBSD$
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*
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* (New) memory allocator for netmap
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*/
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/*
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* This allocator creates three memory pools:
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* nm_if_pool for the struct netmap_if
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* nm_ring_pool for the struct netmap_ring
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* nm_buf_pool for the packet buffers.
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*
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* that contain netmap objects. Each pool is made of a number of clusters,
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* multiple of a page size, each containing an integer number of objects.
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* The clusters are contiguous in user space but not in the kernel.
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* Only nm_buf_pool needs to be dma-able,
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* but for convenience use the same type of allocator for all.
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*
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* Once mapped, the three pools are exported to userspace
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* as a contiguous block, starting from nm_if_pool. Each
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* cluster (and pool) is an integral number of pages.
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* [ . . . ][ . . . . . .][ . . . . . . . . . .]
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* nm_if nm_ring nm_buf
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*
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* The userspace areas contain offsets of the objects in userspace.
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* When (at init time) we write these offsets, we find out the index
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* of the object, and from there locate the offset from the beginning
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* of the region.
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*
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* The invididual allocators manage a pool of memory for objects of
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* the same size.
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* The pool is split into smaller clusters, whose size is a
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* multiple of the page size. The cluster size is chosen
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* to minimize the waste for a given max cluster size
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* (we do it by brute force, as we have relatively few objects
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* per cluster).
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*
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* Objects are aligned to the cache line (64 bytes) rounding up object
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* sizes when needed. A bitmap contains the state of each object.
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* Allocation scans the bitmap; this is done only on attach, so we are not
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* too worried about performance
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*
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* For each allocator we can define (thorugh sysctl) the size and
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* number of each object. Memory is allocated at the first use of a
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* netmap file descriptor, and can be freed when all such descriptors
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* have been released (including unmapping the memory).
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* If memory is scarce, the system tries to get as much as possible
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* and the sysctl values reflect the actual allocation.
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* Together with desired values, the sysctl export also absolute
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* min and maximum values that cannot be overridden.
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*
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* struct netmap_if:
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* variable size, max 16 bytes per ring pair plus some fixed amount.
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* 1024 bytes should be large enough in practice.
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*
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* In the worst case we have one netmap_if per ring in the system.
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*
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* struct netmap_ring
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* variable size, 8 byte per slot plus some fixed amount.
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* Rings can be large (e.g. 4k slots, or >32Kbytes).
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* We default to 36 KB (9 pages), and a few hundred rings.
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*
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* struct netmap_buffer
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* The more the better, both because fast interfaces tend to have
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* many slots, and because we may want to use buffers to store
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* packets in userspace avoiding copies.
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* Must contain a full frame (eg 1518, or more for vlans, jumbo
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* frames etc.) plus be nicely aligned, plus some NICs restrict
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* the size to multiple of 1K or so. Default to 2K
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*/
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#ifndef _NET_NETMAP_MEM2_H_
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#define _NET_NETMAP_MEM2_H_
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/* We implement two kinds of netmap_mem_d structures:
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*
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* - global: used by hardware NICS;
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*
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* - private: used by VALE ports.
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*
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* In both cases, the netmap_mem_d structure has the same lifetime as the
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* netmap_adapter of the corresponding NIC or port. It is the responsibility of
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* the client code to delete the private allocator when the associated
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* netmap_adapter is freed (this is implemented by the NAF_MEM_OWNER flag in
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* netmap.c). The 'refcount' field counts the number of active users of the
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* structure. The global allocator uses this information to prevent/allow
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* reconfiguration. The private allocators release all their memory when there
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* are no active users. By 'active user' we mean an existing netmap_priv
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* structure holding a reference to the allocator.
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*/
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extern struct netmap_mem_d nm_mem;
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Sync netmap sources with the version in our private tree.
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
2015-07-10 05:51:36 +00:00
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void netmap_mem_get_lut(struct netmap_mem_d *, struct netmap_lut *);
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2013-11-02 00:54:47 +00:00
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vm_paddr_t netmap_mem_ofstophys(struct netmap_mem_d *, vm_ooffset_t);
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Update to the current version of netmap.
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.
2014-08-16 15:00:01 +00:00
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int netmap_mem_finalize(struct netmap_mem_d *, struct netmap_adapter *);
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2013-11-02 00:54:47 +00:00
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int netmap_mem_init(void);
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void netmap_mem_fini(void);
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Update to the current version of netmap.
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.
2014-08-16 15:00:01 +00:00
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struct netmap_if * netmap_mem_if_new(struct netmap_adapter *);
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2013-12-15 08:37:24 +00:00
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void netmap_mem_if_delete(struct netmap_adapter *, struct netmap_if *);
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int netmap_mem_rings_create(struct netmap_adapter *);
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void netmap_mem_rings_delete(struct netmap_adapter *);
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Update to the current version of netmap.
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.
2014-08-16 15:00:01 +00:00
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void netmap_mem_deref(struct netmap_mem_d *, struct netmap_adapter *);
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This new version of netmap brings you the following:
- netmap pipes, providing bidirectional blocking I/O while moving
100+ Mpps between processes using shared memory channels
(no mistake: over one hundred million. But mind you, i said
*moving* not *processing*);
- kqueue support (BHyVe needs it);
- improved user library. Just the interface name lets you select a NIC,
host port, VALE switch port, netmap pipe, and individual queues.
The upcoming netmap-enabled libpcap will use this feature.
- optional extra buffers associated to netmap ports, for applications
that need to buffer data yet don't want to make copies.
- segmentation offloading for the VALE switch, useful between VMs.
and a number of bug fixes and performance improvements.
My colleagues Giuseppe Lettieri and Vincenzo Maffione did a substantial
amount of work on these features so we owe them a big thanks.
There are some external repositories that can be of interest:
https://code.google.com/p/netmap
our public repository for netmap/VALE code, including
linux versions and other stuff that does not belong here,
such as python bindings.
https://code.google.com/p/netmap-libpcap
a clone of the libpcap repository with netmap support.
With this any libpcap client has access to most netmap
feature with no recompilation. E.g. tcpdump can filter
packets at 10-15 Mpps.
https://code.google.com/p/netmap-ipfw
a userspace version of ipfw+dummynet which uses netmap
to send/receive packets. Speed is up in the 7-10 Mpps
range per core for simple rulesets.
Both netmap-libpcap and netmap-ipfw will be merged upstream at some
point, but while this happens it is useful to have access to them.
And yes, this code will be merged soon. It is infinitely better
than the version currently in 10 and 9.
MFC after: 3 days
2014-02-15 04:53:04 +00:00
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int netmap_mem_get_info(struct netmap_mem_d *, u_int *size, u_int *memflags, uint16_t *id);
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2013-12-15 08:37:24 +00:00
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ssize_t netmap_mem_if_offset(struct netmap_mem_d *, const void *vaddr);
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This new version of netmap brings you the following:
- netmap pipes, providing bidirectional blocking I/O while moving
100+ Mpps between processes using shared memory channels
(no mistake: over one hundred million. But mind you, i said
*moving* not *processing*);
- kqueue support (BHyVe needs it);
- improved user library. Just the interface name lets you select a NIC,
host port, VALE switch port, netmap pipe, and individual queues.
The upcoming netmap-enabled libpcap will use this feature.
- optional extra buffers associated to netmap ports, for applications
that need to buffer data yet don't want to make copies.
- segmentation offloading for the VALE switch, useful between VMs.
and a number of bug fixes and performance improvements.
My colleagues Giuseppe Lettieri and Vincenzo Maffione did a substantial
amount of work on these features so we owe them a big thanks.
There are some external repositories that can be of interest:
https://code.google.com/p/netmap
our public repository for netmap/VALE code, including
linux versions and other stuff that does not belong here,
such as python bindings.
https://code.google.com/p/netmap-libpcap
a clone of the libpcap repository with netmap support.
With this any libpcap client has access to most netmap
feature with no recompilation. E.g. tcpdump can filter
packets at 10-15 Mpps.
https://code.google.com/p/netmap-ipfw
a userspace version of ipfw+dummynet which uses netmap
to send/receive packets. Speed is up in the 7-10 Mpps
range per core for simple rulesets.
Both netmap-libpcap and netmap-ipfw will be merged upstream at some
point, but while this happens it is useful to have access to them.
And yes, this code will be merged soon. It is infinitely better
than the version currently in 10 and 9.
MFC after: 3 days
2014-02-15 04:53:04 +00:00
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struct netmap_mem_d* netmap_mem_private_new(const char *name,
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u_int txr, u_int txd, u_int rxr, u_int rxd, u_int extra_bufs, u_int npipes,
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int* error);
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Sync netmap sources with the version in our private tree.
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
2015-07-10 05:51:36 +00:00
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void netmap_mem_delete(struct netmap_mem_d *);
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//#define NM_DEBUG_MEM_PUTGET 1
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#ifdef NM_DEBUG_MEM_PUTGET
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#define netmap_mem_get(nmd) \
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do { \
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__netmap_mem_get(nmd, __FUNCTION__, __LINE__); \
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} while (0)
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#define netmap_mem_put(nmd) \
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do { \
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__netmap_mem_put(nmd, __FUNCTION__, __LINE__); \
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} while (0)
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void __netmap_mem_get(struct netmap_mem_d *, const char *, int);
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void __netmap_mem_put(struct netmap_mem_d *, const char *, int);
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#else /* !NM_DEBUG_MEM_PUTGET */
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void netmap_mem_get(struct netmap_mem_d *);
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void netmap_mem_put(struct netmap_mem_d *);
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#endif /* !NM_DEBUG_PUTGET */
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2013-11-02 00:54:47 +00:00
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Update to the current version of netmap.
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.
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#define NETMAP_MEM_PRIVATE 0x2 /* allocator uses private address space */
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#define NETMAP_MEM_IO 0x4 /* the underlying memory is mmapped I/O */
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This new version of netmap brings you the following:
- netmap pipes, providing bidirectional blocking I/O while moving
100+ Mpps between processes using shared memory channels
(no mistake: over one hundred million. But mind you, i said
*moving* not *processing*);
- kqueue support (BHyVe needs it);
- improved user library. Just the interface name lets you select a NIC,
host port, VALE switch port, netmap pipe, and individual queues.
The upcoming netmap-enabled libpcap will use this feature.
- optional extra buffers associated to netmap ports, for applications
that need to buffer data yet don't want to make copies.
- segmentation offloading for the VALE switch, useful between VMs.
and a number of bug fixes and performance improvements.
My colleagues Giuseppe Lettieri and Vincenzo Maffione did a substantial
amount of work on these features so we owe them a big thanks.
There are some external repositories that can be of interest:
https://code.google.com/p/netmap
our public repository for netmap/VALE code, including
linux versions and other stuff that does not belong here,
such as python bindings.
https://code.google.com/p/netmap-libpcap
a clone of the libpcap repository with netmap support.
With this any libpcap client has access to most netmap
feature with no recompilation. E.g. tcpdump can filter
packets at 10-15 Mpps.
https://code.google.com/p/netmap-ipfw
a userspace version of ipfw+dummynet which uses netmap
to send/receive packets. Speed is up in the 7-10 Mpps
range per core for simple rulesets.
Both netmap-libpcap and netmap-ipfw will be merged upstream at some
point, but while this happens it is useful to have access to them.
And yes, this code will be merged soon. It is infinitely better
than the version currently in 10 and 9.
MFC after: 3 days
2014-02-15 04:53:04 +00:00
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uint32_t netmap_extra_alloc(struct netmap_adapter *, uint32_t *, uint32_t n);
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#endif
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