TNAPI

Many of you are using PF_RING and TNAPI for accelerating packet capture performance, but have probably not tested the code for a while. In the past month we have tuned PF_RING performance…

Since a few months ntop and Silicom have started to work together on various network-related topics. The idea is to enhance PF_RING and TNAPI in order to offer better products and support…

The promise of filtering packets in hardware is not new. Unfortunately filtering network adapters are pretty expensive, not to mention if they run at 10 Gbit. Furthermore many commercial FPGA-based NICs feature…

Intel Research Europe Conference, Bruxelles, May 4th 2010 Luca Deri and Joseph Gasparakis, senior Intel engineer, have previewed a new PF_RING-based technology they have co-developed that allows Linux users to fully exploit…

PF_RING has been designed for enhancing packet capture performance. This means that the RX path must be accelerated, and in particular a way to accelerate this is by reducing the journey of…

This article Improvement of libpcap for lossless packet capturing in Linux using PF_RING kernel patch positions PF_RING (3.x, so some changes are needed when using version 4) against the Linux standard PF_PACKET…

On Linux, interrupts are handled automatically by the kernel. In particular there's a process named irqbalancer that is responsible for balancing interrupts across processors. Unfortunately the default is to let all processors…