[lwip-devel] again... Zero Copy Ethernet interface

[Piero 74]

Hi all

I want to open again a thread for zero copy driver implementation

I think that it could be useful a more powerful implementation of pbufs, that could give to developer the possibility to build driver which can avoid a copy from friver to stack.

I have a microcontroller with an emac HW which uses DMA for ethernet packet managment. 

It works with a circular array of buffers with descriptors.

My ethernetif loop, checks if packet is present, copies it in a raw pbuf, and move DMA pointer.

I'd like to remove copy operation; i have to understand better how pbufs works, but i suppose that something have to change:

first, it could be necessary the possibility to allocate pbuf memory in particula memory region: my micro, for example, has emac dma which works on a fixed RAM region.

second, it could be necessary that stack informs lowlevel driver when a pbuf is free

Any idea? any implementation of this planned in the future?

and... out of thread...

what about of SOCKET2 (sockets build without netconn)? some news? is it planned in the future?

bye

Piero

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