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Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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/*
* Copyright (C) 2011-2014 Matteo Landi, Luigi Rizzo. All rights reserved.
*
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
* modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
* are met:
*
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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* 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
* notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
* 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
* notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
* documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
*
* THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``S IS''AND
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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* ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
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* ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
* FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
* DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
* OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
* HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
* LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
* OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
* SUCH DAMAGE.
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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*/
/*
* $FreeBSD$
*
* Definitions of constants and the structures used by the netmap
* framework, for the part visible to both kernel and userspace.
* Detailed info on netmap is available with "man netmap" or at
*
* http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/
*
* This API is also used to communicate with the VALE software switch
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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*/
#ifndef _NET_NETMAP_H_
#define _NET_NETMAP_H_
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
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#define NETMAP_API 11 /* current API version */
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
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#define NETMAP_MIN_API 11 /* min and max versions accepted */
#define NETMAP_MAX_API 15
/*
* Some fields should be cache-aligned to reduce contention.
* The alignment is architecture and OS dependent, but rather than
* digging into OS headers to find the exact value we use an estimate
* that should cover most architectures.
*/
#define NM_CACHE_ALIGN 128
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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/*
* --- Netmap data structures ---
*
* The userspace data structures used by netmap are shown below.
* They are allocated by the kernel and mmap()ed by userspace threads.
* Pointers are implemented as memory offsets or indexes,
* so that they can be easily dereferenced in kernel and userspace.
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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KERNEL (opaque, obviously)
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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====================================================================
|
USERSPACE | struct netmap_ring
+---->+---------------+
/ | head,cur,tail |
struct netmap_if (nifp, 1 per fd) / | buf_ofs |
+---------------+ / | other fields |
| ni_tx_rings | / +===============+
| ni_rx_rings | / | buf_idx, len | slot[0]
| | / | flags, ptr |
| | / +---------------+
+===============+ / | buf_idx, len | slot[1]
| txring_ofs[0] | (rel.to nifp)--' | flags, ptr |
| txring_ofs[1] | +---------------+
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
(tx+1 entries) (num_slots entries)
| txring_ofs[t] | | buf_idx, len | slot[n-1]
+---------------+ | flags, ptr |
| rxring_ofs[0] | +---------------+
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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| rxring_ofs[1] |
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
(rx+1 entries)
| rxring_ofs[r] |
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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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
* For each "interface" (NIC, host stack, PIPE, VALE switch port) bound to
* a file descriptor, the mmap()ed region contains a (logically readonly)
* struct netmap_if pointing to struct netmap_ring's.
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
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*
* There is one netmap_ring per physical NIC ring, plus one tx/rx ring
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
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* pair attached to the host stack (this pair is unused for non-NIC ports).
*
* All physical/host stack ports share the same memory region,
* so that zero-copy can be implemented between them.
* VALE switch ports instead have separate memory regions.
*
* The netmap_ring is the userspace-visible replica of the NIC ring.
* Each slot has the index of a buffer (MTU-sized and residing in the
* mmapped region), its length and some flags. An extra 64-bit pointer
* is provided for user-supplied buffers in the tx path.
*
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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* In user space, the buffer address is computed as
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
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* (char *)ring + buf_ofs + index * NETMAP_BUF_SIZE
*
* Added in NETMAP_API 11:
*
* + NIOCREGIF can request the allocation of extra spare buffers from
* the same memory pool. The desired number of buffers must be in
* nr_arg3. The ioctl may return fewer buffers, depending on memory
* availability. nr_arg3 will return the actual value, and, once
* mapped, nifp->ni_bufs_head will be the index of the first buffer.
*
* The buffers are linked to each other using the first uint32_t
* as the index. On close, ni_bufs_head must point to the list of
* buffers to be released.
*
* + NIOCREGIF can request space for extra rings (and buffers)
* allocated in the same memory space. The number of extra rings
* is in nr_arg1, and is advisory. This is a no-op on NICs where
* the size of the memory space is fixed.
*
* + NIOCREGIF can attach to PIPE rings sharing the same memory
* space with a parent device. The ifname indicates the parent device,
* which must already exist. Flags in nr_flags indicate if we want to
* bind the master or slave side, the index (from nr_ringid)
* is just a cookie and does not need to be sequential.
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
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*
* + NIOCREGIF can also attach to 'monitor' rings that replicate
* the content of specific rings, also from the same memory space.
*
* Extra flags in nr_flags support the above functions.
* Application libraries may use the following naming scheme:
* netmap:foo all NIC ring pairs
* netmap:foo^ only host ring pair
* netmap:foo+ all NIC ring + host ring pairs
* netmap:foo-k the k-th NIC ring pair
* netmap:foo{k PIPE ring pair k, master side
* netmap:foo}k PIPE ring pair k, slave side
*/
/*
* struct netmap_slot is a buffer descriptor
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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*/
struct netmap_slot {
uint32_t buf_idx; /* buffer index */
uint16_t len; /* length for this slot */
uint16_t flags; /* buf changed, etc. */
uint64_t ptr; /* pointer for indirect buffers */
};
/*
* The following flags control how the slot is used
*/
#define NS_BUF_CHANGED 0x0001 /* buf_idx changed */
/*
* must be set whenever buf_idx is changed (as it might be
* necessary to recompute the physical address and mapping)
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*
* It is also set by the kernel whenever the buf_idx is
* changed internally (e.g., by pipes). Applications may
* use this information to know when they can reuse the
* contents of previously prepared buffers.
*/
#define NS_REPORT 0x0002 /* ask the hardware to report results */
/*
* Request notification when slot is used by the hardware.
* Normally transmit completions are handled lazily and
* may be unreported. This flag lets us know when a slot
* has been sent (e.g. to terminate the sender).
*/
#define NS_FORWARD 0x0004 /* pass packet 'forward' */
/*
* (Only for physical ports, rx rings with NR_FORWARD set).
* Slot released to the kernel (i.e. before ring->head) with
* this flag set are passed to the peer ring (host/NIC),
* thus restoring the host-NIC connection for these slots.
* This supports efficient traffic monitoring or firewalling.
*/
#define NS_NO_LEARN 0x0008 /* disable bridge learning */
/*
* On a VALE switch, do not 'learn' the source port for
* this buffer.
*/
#define NS_INDIRECT 0x0010 /* userspace buffer */
/*
* (VALE tx rings only) data is in a userspace buffer,
* whose address is in the 'ptr' field in the slot.
*/
#define NS_MOREFRAG 0x0020 /* packet has more fragments */
/*
* (VALE ports only)
* Set on all but the last slot of a multi-segment packet.
* The 'len' field refers to the individual fragment.
*/
#define NS_PORT_SHIFT 8
#define NS_PORT_MASK (0xff << NS_PORT_SHIFT)
/*
* The high 8 bits of the flag, if not zero, indicate the
* destination port for the VALE switch, overriding
* the lookup table.
*/
#define NS_RFRAGS(_slot) ( ((_slot)->flags >> 8) & 0xff)
/*
* (VALE rx rings only) the high 8 bits
* are the number of fragments.
*/
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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/*
* struct netmap_ring
*
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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* Netmap representation of a TX or RX ring (also known as "queue").
* This is a queue implemented as a fixed-size circular array.
* At the software level the important fields are: head, cur, tail.
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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*
* In TX rings:
*
* head first slot available for transmission.
* cur wakeup point. select() and poll() will unblock
* when 'tail' moves past 'cur'
* tail (readonly) first slot reserved to the kernel
*
* [head .. tail-1] can be used for new packets to send;
* 'head' and 'cur' must be incremented as slots are filled
* with new packets to be sent;
* 'cur' can be moved further ahead if we need more space
* for new transmissions. XXX todo (2014-03-12)
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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*
* In RX rings:
*
* head first valid received packet
* cur wakeup point. select() and poll() will unblock
* when 'tail' moves past 'cur'
* tail (readonly) first slot reserved to the kernel
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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*
* [head .. tail-1] contain received packets;
* 'head' and 'cur' must be incremented as slots are consumed
* and can be returned to the kernel;
* 'cur' can be moved further ahead if we want to wait for
* new packets without returning the previous ones.
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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*
* DATA OWNERSHIP/LOCKING:
* The netmap_ring, and all slots and buffers in the range
* [head .. tail-1] are owned by the user program;
* the kernel only accesses them during a netmap system call
* and in the user thread context.
*
* Other slots and buffers are reserved for use by the kernel
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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*/
struct netmap_ring {
/*
* buf_ofs is meant to be used through macros.
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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* It contains the offset of the buffer region from this
* descriptor.
*/
const int64_t buf_ofs;
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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const uint32_t num_slots; /* number of slots in the ring. */
const uint32_t nr_buf_size;
const uint16_t ringid;
const uint16_t dir; /* 0: tx, 1: rx */
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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uint32_t head; /* (u) first user slot */
uint32_t cur; /* (u) wakeup point */
uint32_t tail; /* (k) first kernel slot */
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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uint32_t flags;
struct timeval ts; /* (k) time of last *sync() */
/* opaque room for a mutex or similar object */
uint8_t sem[128] __attribute__((__aligned__(NM_CACHE_ALIGN)));
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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/* the slots follow. This struct has variable size */
struct netmap_slot slot[0]; /* array of slots. */
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};
/*
* RING FLAGS
*/
#define NR_TIMESTAMP 0x0002 /* set timestamp on *sync() */
/*
* updates the 'ts' field on each netmap syscall. This saves
* saves a separate gettimeofday(), and is not much worse than
* software timestamps generated in the interrupt handler.
*/
#define NR_FORWARD 0x0004 /* enable NS_FORWARD for ring */
/*
* Enables the NS_FORWARD slot flag for the ring.
*/
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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/*
* Netmap representation of an interface and its queue(s).
* This is initialized by the kernel when binding a file
* descriptor to a port, and should be considered as readonly
* by user programs. The kernel never uses it.
*
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* There is one netmap_if for each file descriptor on which we want
* to select/poll.
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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* select/poll operates on one or all pairs depending on the value of
* nmr_queueid passed on the ioctl.
*/
struct netmap_if {
char ni_name[IFNAMSIZ]; /* name of the interface. */
const uint32_t ni_version; /* API version, currently unused */
const uint32_t ni_flags; /* properties */
#define NI_PRIV_MEM 0x1 /* private memory region */
/*
* The number of packet rings available in netmap mode.
* Physical NICs can have different numbers of tx and rx rings.
* Physical NICs also have a 'host' ring pair.
* Additionally, clients can request additional ring pairs to
* be used for internal communication.
*/
const uint32_t ni_tx_rings; /* number of HW tx rings */
const uint32_t ni_rx_rings; /* number of HW rx rings */
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
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uint32_t ni_bufs_head; /* head index for extra bufs */
uint32_t ni_spare1[5];
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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/*
* The following array contains the offset of each netmap ring
* from this structure, in the following order:
* NIC tx rings (ni_tx_rings); host tx ring (1); extra tx rings;
* NIC rx rings (ni_rx_rings); host tx ring (1); extra rx rings.
*
* The area is filled up by the kernel on NIOCREGIF,
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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* and then only read by userspace code.
*/
const ssize_t ring_ofs[0];
};
#ifndef NIOCREGIF
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/*
* ioctl names and related fields
*
* NIOCTXSYNC, NIOCRXSYNC synchronize tx or rx queues,
* whose identity is set in NIOCREGIF through nr_ringid.
* These are non blocking and take no argument.
*
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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* NIOCGINFO takes a struct ifreq, the interface name is the input,
* the outputs are number of queues and number of descriptor
* for each queue (useful to set number of threads etc.).
* The info returned is only advisory and may change before
* the interface is bound to a file descriptor.
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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*
* NIOCREGIF takes an interface name within a struct nmre,
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* and activates netmap mode on the interface (if possible).
*
* The argument to NIOCGINFO/NIOCREGIF overlays struct ifreq so we
* can pass it down to other NIC-related ioctls.
*
* The actual argument (struct nmreq) has a number of options to request
* different functions.
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
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* The following are used in NIOCREGIF when nr_cmd == 0:
*
* nr_name (in)
* The name of the port (em0, valeXXX:YYY, etc.)
* limited to IFNAMSIZ for backward compatibility.
*
* nr_version (in/out)
* Must match NETMAP_API as used in the kernel, error otherwise.
* Always returns the desired value on output.
*
* nr_tx_slots, nr_tx_slots, nr_tx_rings, nr_rx_rings (in/out)
* On input, non-zero values may be used to reconfigure the port
* according to the requested values, but this is not guaranteed.
* On output the actual values in use are reported.
*
* nr_ringid (in)
* Indicates how rings should be bound to the file descriptors.
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
* If nr_flags != 0, then the low bits (in NETMAP_RING_MASK)
* are used to indicate the ring number, and nr_flags specifies
* the actual rings to bind. NETMAP_NO_TX_POLL is unaffected.
*
* NOTE: THE FOLLOWING (nr_flags == 0) IS DEPRECATED:
* If nr_flags == 0, NETMAP_HW_RING and NETMAP_SW_RING control
* the binding as follows:
* 0 (default) binds all physical rings
* NETMAP_HW_RING | ring number binds a single ring pair
* NETMAP_SW_RING binds only the host tx/rx rings
*
* NETMAP_NO_TX_POLL can be OR-ed to make select()/poll() push
* packets on tx rings only if POLLOUT is set.
* The default is to push any pending packet.
*
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
* NETMAP_DO_RX_POLL can be OR-ed to make select()/poll() release
* packets on rx rings also when POLLIN is NOT set.
* The default is to touch the rx ring only with POLLIN.
* Note that this is the opposite of TX because it
* reflects the common usage.
*
* NOTE: NETMAP_PRIV_MEM IS DEPRECATED, use nr_arg2 instead.
* NETMAP_PRIV_MEM is set on return for ports that do not use
* the global memory allocator.
* This information is not significant and applications
* should look at the region id in nr_arg2
*
* nr_flags is the recommended mode to indicate which rings should
* be bound to a file descriptor. Values are NR_REG_*
*
* nr_arg1 (in) The number of extra rings to be reserved.
* Especially when allocating a VALE port the system only
* allocates the amount of memory needed for the port.
* If more shared memory rings are desired (e.g. for pipes),
* the first invocation for the same basename/allocator
* should specify a suitable number. Memory cannot be
* extended after the first allocation without closing
* all ports on the same region.
*
* nr_arg2 (in/out) The identity of the memory region used.
* On input, 0 means the system decides autonomously,
* other values may try to select a specific region.
* On return the actual value is reported.
* Region '1' is the global allocator, normally shared
* by all interfaces. Other values are private regions.
* If two ports the same region zero-copy is possible.
*
* nr_arg3 (in/out) number of extra buffers to be allocated.
*
*
*
* nr_cmd (in) if non-zero indicates a special command:
* NETMAP_BDG_ATTACH and nr_name = vale*:ifname
* attaches the NIC to the switch; nr_ringid specifies
* which rings to use. Used by vale-ctl -a ...
* nr_arg1 = NETMAP_BDG_HOST also attaches the host port
* as in vale-ctl -h ...
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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*
* NETMAP_BDG_DETACH and nr_name = vale*:ifname
* disconnects a previously attached NIC.
* Used by vale-ctl -d ...
*
* NETMAP_BDG_LIST
* list the configuration of VALE switches.
*
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
* NETMAP_BDG_VNET_HDR
* Set the virtio-net header length used by the client
* of a VALE switch port.
*
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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* NETMAP_BDG_NEWIF
* create a persistent VALE port with name nr_name.
* Used by vale-ctl -n ...
*
* NETMAP_BDG_DELIF
* delete a persistent VALE port. Used by vale-ctl -d ...
*
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
* nr_arg1, nr_arg2, nr_arg3 (in/out) command specific
*
*
*
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
2011-11-17 12:17:39 +00:00
*/
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
2011-11-17 12:17:39 +00:00
/*
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
* struct nmreq overlays a struct ifreq (just the name)
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
2011-11-17 12:17:39 +00:00
*/
struct nmreq {
char nr_name[IFNAMSIZ];
uint32_t nr_version; /* API version */
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
2011-11-17 12:17:39 +00:00
uint32_t nr_offset; /* nifp offset in the shared region */
uint32_t nr_memsize; /* size of the shared region */
uint32_t nr_tx_slots; /* slots in tx rings */
uint32_t nr_rx_slots; /* slots in rx rings */
uint16_t nr_tx_rings; /* number of tx rings */
uint16_t nr_rx_rings; /* number of rx rings */
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
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
2011-11-17 12:17:39 +00:00
uint16_t nr_ringid; /* ring(s) we care about */
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
#define NETMAP_HW_RING 0x4000 /* single NIC ring pair */
#define NETMAP_SW_RING 0x2000 /* only host ring pair */
#define NETMAP_RING_MASK 0x0fff /* the ring number */
#define NETMAP_NO_TX_POLL 0x1000 /* no automatic txsync on poll */
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
#define NETMAP_DO_RX_POLL 0x8000 /* DO automatic rxsync on poll */
uint16_t nr_cmd;
#define NETMAP_BDG_ATTACH 1 /* attach the NIC */
#define NETMAP_BDG_DETACH 2 /* detach the NIC */
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
#define NETMAP_BDG_REGOPS 3 /* register bridge callbacks */
#define NETMAP_BDG_LIST 4 /* get bridge's info */
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
#define NETMAP_BDG_VNET_HDR 5 /* set the port virtio-net-hdr length */
#define NETMAP_BDG_OFFSET NETMAP_BDG_VNET_HDR /* deprecated alias */
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
#define NETMAP_BDG_NEWIF 6 /* create a virtual port */
#define NETMAP_BDG_DELIF 7 /* destroy a virtual port */
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
uint16_t nr_arg1; /* reserve extra rings in NIOCREGIF */
#define NETMAP_BDG_HOST 1 /* attach the host stack on ATTACH */
uint16_t nr_arg2;
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
uint32_t nr_arg3; /* req. extra buffers in NIOCREGIF */
uint32_t nr_flags;
/* various modes, extends nr_ringid */
uint32_t spare2[1];
};
#define NR_REG_MASK 0xf /* values for nr_flags */
enum { NR_REG_DEFAULT = 0, /* backward compat, should not be used. */
NR_REG_ALL_NIC = 1,
NR_REG_SW = 2,
NR_REG_NIC_SW = 3,
NR_REG_ONE_NIC = 4,
NR_REG_PIPE_MASTER = 5,
NR_REG_PIPE_SLAVE = 6,
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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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
/* monitor uses the NR_REG to select the rings to monitor */
#define NR_MONITOR_TX 0x100
#define NR_MONITOR_RX 0x200
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#define NR_ZCOPY_MON 0x400
/* request exclusive access to the selected rings */
#define NR_EXCLUSIVE 0x800
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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/*
* FreeBSD uses the size value embedded in the _IOWR to determine
* how much to copy in/out. So we need it to match the actual
* data structure we pass. We put some spares in the structure
* to ease compatibility with other versions
*/
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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#define NIOCGINFO _IOWR('i', 145, struct nmreq) /* return IF info */
#define NIOCREGIF _IOWR('i', 146, struct nmreq) /* interface register */
#define NIOCTXSYNC _IO('i', 148) /* sync tx queues */
#define NIOCRXSYNC _IO('i', 149) /* sync rx queues */
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
#define NIOCCONFIG _IOWR('i',150, struct nm_ifreq) /* for ext. modules */
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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#endif /* !NIOCREGIF */
/*
* Helper functions for kernel and userspace
*/
/*
* check if space is available in the ring.
*/
static inline int
nm_ring_empty(struct netmap_ring *ring)
{
return (ring->cur == ring->tail);
}
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
/*
* Opaque structure that is passed to an external kernel
* module via ioctl(fd, NIOCCONFIG, req) for a user-owned
* bridge port (at this point ephemeral VALE interface).
*/
#define NM_IFRDATA_LEN 256
struct nm_ifreq {
char nifr_name[IFNAMSIZ];
char data[NM_IFRDATA_LEN];
};
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1] In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in sys/dev/netmap/head.diff The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers. Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices. CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright. [1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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#endif /* _NET_NETMAP_H_ */