From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 24 23:18:03 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80B4C1065673 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:18:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mat.macy@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 529C18FC1A for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:18:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mat.macy@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so1019447rvf.43 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:18:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=595bqgHRcigXHQ97HlfilAP6Dfw0Dy+g+qZ/4Y0Zqpw=; b=X/1zpCzOi/fkSF/CmYfI6NcRqnuXfB72Y1LDsxgsMvsiOL/DgG2sFyD4R8pZdK9EkO 2Xu1WrCJkq03EwF4JHRMubIrGzDIxlUg1AVTxMP05bE11YED42Y1+qJSRBx4bxSA3hTd HHmzvtUcpHPYT4SROHBJP47clRW2AlY21hZLo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=uMrFCttYpZBL4LuMX2i2Utxuxyi7XWjGd+n6c6IOcph8G8yzXVV1XgK5VjRgNhjmK+ VNznaQOvKWy0atBosRLByqKzV7mGYfU2LK8gex1umV1xVTKw5C5+HOzIl+aIUm39fzGr NNNg7CyE2K8/CmTS6oqhBHC+Wd08b0bHfSGsQ= Received: by 10.140.191.14 with SMTP id o14mr1525615rvf.78.1224888738688; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:52:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.157.8 with HTTP; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:52:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3c1674c90810241552v5fd3e58fvf6bd43ad94558b1e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:52:18 +0000 From: "Kip Macy" Sender: mat.macy@gmail.com To: "Bartosz Giza" In-Reply-To: <200810241612.04764.gizmen@blurp.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200810241612.04764.gizmen@blurp.pl> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 7cfc622440d29a50 Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: does freebsd support so called Scalable I/O on intel NIC ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:18:03 -0000 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 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" >