On 10/7/12 8:02 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
Coming to 802.11 (and I am using it just as an example):
configuration of the various parameters is not too different from,
say, manipulating the various features that are available in modern
NICs: interrupt mitigation, queue parameters, multiqueue support,
On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 01:05:21PM -0400, Justin Hibbits wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Oct 2012 10:16:40 -0600
> Ian Lepore wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2012-10-07 at 17:53 +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > > Access through sysctl is incredibly easy from both userspace and
> > > from a C application, because all the w
On Sun, 07 Oct 2012 10:16:40 -0600
Ian Lepore wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-10-07 at 17:53 +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > Access through sysctl is incredibly easy from both userspace and
> > from a C application, because all the work is done in the kernel
> > side, whereas other mechanisms (ioctl, i'd rat
On Sun, 2012-10-07 at 17:53 +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> Access through sysctl is incredibly easy from both userspace and
> from a C application, because all the work is done in the kernel
> side, whereas other mechanisms (ioctl, i'd rather leave kvm apart
> as we really don't want that!) require th
On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 08:23:23AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
...
> FWIW, I don't think that the problem is necessarily the fact that one
> should do it either via ioctl, kvm, sysctl, etc: having a library/set
> of interfaces as Adrian suggest
On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> [subject changed due to the shift of topic]
>
> On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 07:08:54AM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> On 7 October 2012 03:43, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>> >
>> > Good point, thanks for mentioning this:
>>
>> ew. ifconfig :-)
>>
>> >
>> >
> > Seconded; but compare to Linux which has mutiple different commands to
> > do networking, as well as 'net'. :-)
>
> we do too -- we have arp, route, ifconfig, sysctl and possibly
> more that i am not aware of.
Note that at least arp, route and ifconfig have been there since very
early BSD rel
