> This said, one should consider that going fast and being > completely general don't go well together -- you don't do > F1 races with a minivan, and don't carry large groups of > people around with an F1 car.
This is self-evident, any sort of multiplexing comes at a price. To have the card be simultaneously general and support direct access requires dedicated hardware like the quasi-IOMMU on the Solarflare cards. > I don't think we'll ever manage > to have both at the same time. It is good to have a > "transformer" vehicle though! >From my point of view, the general utility of this all boils down to how easy it is to use the "bridge". I'll take a look in to interfacing to netmap with my user level TCP stack to get a feel for the latter. Thanks for the clarification. -Kip _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
