On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 04:16:17PM -0700, Max Krasnyansky ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Evgeniy,
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> > The latest version is available at
> > http://tservice.net.ru/~s0mbre/archive/af_tlb
> >
> > It has several enhancements, fixed some stuff,
> > many cleanups. Fixed/upgraded skb freeing mechanism.
> Thanks. I'll take a look at it.
>
> > I think this zero-copy mechanism
> > can be used in tun/tap devices too ,
> > although main idea was to implement
> > sniffer module to grab whole traffic as fast
> > as possible - current code requeues skb from
> > prot_hook.func() into per-socket queue,
> > so it could be used for tun/tap device queue too.
> TUN/TAP has to do pretty much the same thing on RX. ie deliver skbs that
> show up on tunX interface to the user-space as fast as we can.
Sure.
I think, if remapping idea is worth to be implemented, it could be some
common code to be used in TUN/TAP device to receive only specified
packets, or packet socket (yet another :) ) to receive all traffic.
> Max
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Evgeniy Polyakov
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