Ryota Ozaki (ozaki-r)

Work area

• Kernel
  • DTrace
  • Networking
    • Layer 2 and Layer 3
  • Network device drivers
• Ports
  • amd64
  • evbarm

TODO

• MP-safe networking
  • [done] bridge
  • bpf
  • vlan
  • ifnet
  • IP forwarding
• Add ATF tests for networking
  • Already added many tests but not enough yet
• DTrace
  • Support more providers
  • Support more ARM boards
• Kill kvm(3) users
  • only netstat?
• Enlarge ifnet#if_flags
• Restructure ifnet
  • http://www.mistimed.com/home/BSDNetworking.pdf
• [done] Refactore ether_output
  • http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.devel.network/13403
  • Pull out routing lookups from ether_output
• Aggregate interface packet counting
  • Counting the number of packets and amount of data at different places is a horrible idea
• Do bpf_mtap at a common place
  • Regain it from device drivers
• [done] Make if_link_state_change softint
  • It can be called from H/W interrupt context while it does many things including sleep-able operations
  • PR kern/49793
• Make netipsec a rump component
• vioif(4)
  • [done] MSI-X support
  • Multi-queue support
• [done] Nexthop cache separation
  • http://www.netbsd.org/~matt/smpnet.html#nexthop
• softint-based RX (and TX?)
  • Polling mode
• Replace the routing table
  • with what?
  • Use Poptrie or SAIL for fast lookup