Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:40:58 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: does freebsd support so called Scalable I/O on intel NIC ? Message-ID: <gdsmom$jf$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <200810241612.04764.gizmen@blurp.pl> References: <200810241612.04764.gizmen@blurp.pl>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigF385824B6A8B7CB3ED271B83 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Bartosz Giza wrote: > Hi, >=20 > i am looking for a good NIC from NIC to put on our quite busy router ba= sed=20 > on freebsd 6.3 (soon 7.x) > I've found server NIC from intel and there is such a thing like scalabl= e I/O=20 > on windows and linux. > (from web page) >=20 > "load balancing on multiple CPUs Increases > performance on multi-processor systems by efficiently > balancing network loads across CPU cores when used > with Receive-Side Scaling from Microsoft or Scalable > I/O on Linux*" >=20 > Is such thing supported on freebsd ? I don't think so - I've run into problems when IO handling is limited to a single CPU. There are apparently unofficial patches for this here: http://people.yandex-team.ru/~wawa/ but I haven't tried them yet. Other components of "scalable IO" are present - interrupt moderation, TSO= =2E --------------enigF385824B6A8B7CB3ED271B83 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJAd56ldnAQVacBcgRAlyrAKCI1k2afTDmeUqXNE0sG+z4Kw+FGACfUYOV 6WQz8u2wKKa2zrWV9/6TrJo= =Dtfr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigF385824B6A8B7CB3ED271B83--
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