Re: change netmap global lock to sx?

2014-05-27 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 1:49 AM, Navdeep Parhar wrote: > I'd like to change the netmap global lock from a mutex into a sleepable > shared/exclusive lock. This will allow a driver's nm_register hook > (which is called with the global lock held) to sleep if it has to. I've > casually used pkt-gen

change netmap global lock to sx?

2014-05-27 Thread Navdeep Parhar
I'd like to change the netmap global lock from a mutex into a sleepable shared/exclusive lock. This will allow a driver's nm_register hook (which is called with the global lock held) to sleep if it has to. I've casually used pkt-gen after this conversion (patch attached) and the witness hasn't co

Re: Regarding Netmap in VM

2014-05-27 Thread Jack Vogel
Ya, it might be nice to do a bunch of cleanup like that, maybe once the i40e release happens I'll have some time to look into that. Jack On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 2:49 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 5:00 AM, Jack Vogel wrote: > >> I don't think we've ever tried this at

Re: About TFTP

2014-05-27 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 27 May 2014, Niu Zhixiong wrote: Dear all, I want to modify the source code of TFTP. However it is invoked by inetd. I really need a standalone service of TFTP without inetd. But, when a start tftpd without inetd. it says recvfrom: Socket operation on non-socket. Could someone give m

Re: About TFTP

2014-05-27 Thread Eygene Ryabinkin
Tue, May 27, 2014 at 10:12:40PM +0800, Niu Zhixiong wrote: > I want to modify the source code of TFTP. However it is invoked by > inetd. I really need a standalone service of TFTP without inetd. Why? Inetd provides network pipe and connection initiation for TFTP daemon and then it acts on the "co

About TFTP

2014-05-27 Thread Niu Zhixiong
Dear all, I want to modify the source code of TFTP. However it is invoked by inetd. I really need a standalone service of TFTP without inetd. But, when a start tftpd without inetd. it says recvfrom: Socket operation on non-socket. Could someone give me some suggestion to start tftpd without in

Re: Regarding Netmap in VM

2014-05-27 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 5:00 AM, Jack Vogel wrote: > I don't think we've ever tried this at Intel either. I had meant to check > the ixv code to > see if it had your code in it Luigi but got distracted, if it doesn't then > it obviously can't > work for the case of a VM. > ​ixv.c does not contai