Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:52:18 +0000 From: "Kip Macy" <kmacy@freebsd.org> To: "Bartosz Giza" <gizmen@blurp.pl> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: does freebsd support so called Scalable I/O on intel NIC ? Message-ID: <3c1674c90810241552v5fd3e58fvf6bd43ad94558b1e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200810241612.04764.gizmen@blurp.pl> References: <200810241612.04764.gizmen@blurp.pl>
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It is simply a knob to adjust on all new server network cards. You could benefit from it on a predominantly UDP workload. I believe that tcp_input is still sufficiently serialized that it would not make sense for TCP workloads. -Kip On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Bartosz Giza <gizmen@blurp.pl> wrote: > Hi, > > i am looking for a good NIC from NIC to put on our quite busy router based > on freebsd 6.3 (soon 7.x) > I've found server NIC from intel and there is such a thing like scalable I/O > on windows and linux. > (from web page) > > "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*" > > Is such thing supported on freebsd ? > > And one more question. Does anybody has some data what is difference on > desktop and server NIC from INTEL in pps or so. > I wonder how faster could be those server NICs > > thanks > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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