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A link reset now is completely transparent for the netmap client: even if the NIC resets its own ring (e.g. restarting from 0), the client will not see any change in the current rx/tx positions, because the driver will keep track of the offset between the two. 2. make the device-specific code more uniform across different drivers There were some inconsistencies in the implementation of the netmap support routines, now drivers have been aligned to a common code structure. 3. import netmap support for ixgbe . This is implemented as a very small patch for ixgbe.c (233 lines, 11 chunks, mostly comments: in total the patch has only 54 lines of new code) , as most of the code is in an external file sys/dev/netmap/ixgbe_netmap.h , following some initial comments from Jack Vogel about making changes less intrusive. (Note, i have emailed Jack multiple times asking if he had comments on this structure of the code; i got no reply so i assume he is fine with it). Support for other drivers (em, lem, re, igb) will come later. "ixgbe" is now the reference driver for netmap support. Both the external file (sys/dev/netmap/ixgbe_netmap.h) and the device-specific patches (in sys/dev/ixgbe/ixgbe.c) are heavily commented and should serve as a reference for other device drivers. Tested on i386 and amd64 with the pkt-gen program in tools/tools/netmap, the sender does 14.88 Mpps at 1050 Mhz and 14.2 Mpps at 900 MHz on an i7-860 with 4 cores and 82599 card. Haven't tried yet more aggressive optimizations such as adding 'prefetch' instructions in the time-critical parts of the code.
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