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Date:      Sat, 28 May 2005 17:58:27 -0600
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD router performance and PCI-Express NICs
Message-ID:  <429905A3.9050607@samsco.org>
In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.0.20050527111809.0704d4e0@64.7.153.2>
References:  <6.2.1.2.0.20050527111809.0704d4e0@64.7.153.2>

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Mike Tancsa wrote:

> While on the topic, has anyone tried
> 
> http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=406
> 
> on FreeBSD ?
> 
>         ---Mike
> 

I've seen the marketting literature on the D-Link website for this card
for many months, but I'm having a hard time finding a seller in the
USA (i.e. a significant mail-order distributor).  I would imagine the
the card would 'just work' as long as it has a programming interface
that is compatible with one of our drivers.  We don't have MSI support
yet so interrupt latency might still be a small issue (though it's
debatable whether MSI gives better or worse latency than legacy PCI
when you're dealing with a heavily loaded root complex), but interrupts
should still work fine in legacy mode.  I have several machines that
can take a card like this and I wouldn't mind having one just for
validation purposes, but it's probably not a big deal.

Scott



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