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Date:      Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:23:06 +0100
From:      Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Packet steering/SMP
Message-ID:  <4C58426A.9020905@unsane.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008031643160.58546@fledge.watson.org>
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On 03/08/2010 16:47, Robert Watson wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Vincent Hoffman wrote:
>
>> Fasinating stuff. I read http://www.ntop.org/blog/?p=86 to mean that
>> the newer intel NICs had similar capabilities to the Chelsio T3, is
>> it just a lack of driver and control support in FreeBSD or did I
>> misunderstand?
>
> The Intel cards I've looked at often have quite small tables --
> appropriate for directing packets for virtualization purposes (i.e., a
> few MACs to specific CPUs), and fine for distributing using RSS, but
> not able to direct tens of thousands of connections individually by
> 4-tuple to specific queues. It wouldn't surprise me if newer
> generations of Intel cards support similar features.
>
> If you're interested in high-performance packet capture to userspace,
> this GSoC project might be interesting though:
>
>   http://wiki.freebsd.org/AlexandreFiveg/SOC2010AlexandreFive

I did notice this, I'll be paying attention to see what the results are.
Vince
>
> Robert
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