On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 01:29:32AM +0100, Daniele Di Proietto wrote: > > I'll just attach the patch (just for a quick preview, it is not ready > jet) > > that builds the userspace components for the kernel datapath in FreeBSD. > We > > provide some linux functionalities (netlink and epoll) through wrappers > > (not included here) so that LINUX_DATAPATH is true. What we may need is a > > better way to understand which features are present to exclude some > blocks > > inside LINUX_DATAPATH. > > From reading this, it looks like the BSD kernel datapath port also > uses Netlink as the communication channel to the kernel. Is that > correct? >
correct. daniele implemented netlink generic sockets for FreeBSD as a kernel module as part of the work. cheers luigi -- -----------------------------------------+------------------------------- Prof. Luigi RIZZO, ri...@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . Universita` di Pisa TEL +39-050-2211611 . via Diotisalvi 2 Mobile +39-338-6809875 . 56122 PISA (Italy) -----------------------------------------+-------------------------------
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