* John W. Linville (linville at tuxdriver.com) wrote: > This is a Linux-specific virtual PMD driver backed by an AF_PACKET > socket. The current implementation uses mmap'ed ring buffers to > limit copying and user/kernel transitions. The intent is also to take > advantage of fanout and any future AF_PACKET optimizations as well. > > This is intended to provide a means for using DPDK on a broad range > of hardware without hardware-specifi PMDs and hopefully with better > performance than what PCAP offers in Linux. This might be useful > as a development platform for DPDK applications when DPDK-supported > hardware is expensive or unavailable.
Nice, have you compared yet w/ PCAP numbers?
