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james jones

Oct. 3, 2013

3:32 p.m.

Greetings, Is there any work being done on a kernel module for generic packet processing in user space? -James

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Bjørn Mork

Oct. 3, 2013

3:44 p.m.

james jones <james.voip+kernel@gmail.com> writes:

Is there any work being done on a kernel module for generic packet processing in user space?

Like the "Universal TUN/TAP device driver", you mean? Bjørn

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Richard Weinberger

Oct. 5, 2013

4:41 p.m.

On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 5:32 PM, james jones <james.voip+kernel@gmail.com> wrote:

Greetings,

Is there any work being done on a kernel module for generic packet processing in user space?

Using VFIO you can do a pure userspace NIC driver. -- Thanks, //richard

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