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On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 14:45, Mihnea Balta wrote:
> Hi,
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> I have to implement a system which grabs udp packets off a gigabit connec=
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> take some basic action based on what they contain, repack their data with=
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> custom protocol header and send them through a gigabit ethernet interface=
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> broadcast.
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> I know how to do this in userspace, but I need to know if doing everyting=
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> syscall and memory copy overhead. The system will be quite stressed, havi=
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> to deal with around 15-20000 packets/second.
mmap() packet socket interface eliminates the need for system calls when
traffic is coming in at a high rate. The kernel -> user copy is also
eliminated, but its just replaced with a kernel -> kernel copy :P
You could perhaps also use linux socket filters to minimize the number
of packets you need to evaluate...
Check out this sample code: http://www.scaramanga.co.uk/code-fu/lincap.c
HTH
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// Gianni Tedesco (gianni at scaramanga dot co dot uk)
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