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USERSPACE: 1. add support for devices with different number of rx and tx queues; 2. add better support for zero-copy operation, adding an extra field to the netmap ring to indicate how many buffers we have already processed but not yet released (with help from Eddie Kohler); 3. The two changes above unfortunately require an API change, so while at it add a version field and some spares to the ioctl() argument to help detect mismatches. 4. update the manual page for the two changes above; 5. update sample applications in tools/tools/netmap KERNEL: 1. simplify the internal structures moving the global wait queues to the 'struct netmap_adapter'; 2. simplify the functions that map kring<->nic ring indexes 3. normalize device-specific code, helps mainteinance; 4. start exploring the impact of micro-optimizations (prefetch etc.) in the ixgbe driver. Use 'legacy' descriptors on the tx ring and prefetch slots gives about 20% speedup at 900 MHz. Another 7-10% would come from removing the explict calls to bus_dmamap* in the core (they are effectively NOPs in this case, but it takes expensive load of the per-buffer dma maps to figure out that they are all NULL. Rx performance not investigated. I am postponing the MFC so i can import a few more improvements before merging. |
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