Re: HEADS UP: zerocopy bpf commits impending

2008-03-24 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Petri Helenius wrote: Pardon the basic question, but is the current patchset "zero copy" or "one copy"? The paper I saw a link to described a mechanism to eliminate one of the two copies the traditional bpf approach makes but I haven't taken a look into the actual code.

Re: HEADS UP: zerocopy bpf commits impending

2008-03-24 Thread Petri Helenius
Pardon the basic question, but is the current patchset "zero copy" or "one copy"? The paper I saw a link to described a mechanism to eliminate one of the two copies the traditional bpf approach makes but I haven't taken a look into the actual code. Pete _

Re: HEADS UP: zerocopy bpf commits impending

2008-03-24 Thread Christian S.J. Peron
I just want everyone to know that I have completed the zerocopy bpf commit. Please be on the "lookout" for any strange bpf related issues. For people that want to test the new zerocopy bpf implementation, a patch can be found here: http://people.freebsd.org/~csjp/pcap.1206364304.diff Any comme

Re: HEADS UP: zerocopy bpf commits impending

2008-03-24 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Christian S.J. Peron wrote: I just want everyone to know that I have completed the zerocopy bpf commit. Please be on the "lookout" for any strange bpf related issues. For people that want to test the new zerocopy bpf implementation, a patch can be found here: http://peo

HEADS UP: zerocopy bpf commits impending

2008-03-17 Thread Christian S.J. Peron
All, Just wanted to give a heads up that I plan to start merging the work located in the zerocopy bpf perforce branch. We have been working on this project for about a year now and feel that it is ready to come into the tree. I will begin to merge hopefully today [assuming nobody has any concern