From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 3 16:23:09 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26CB71065679 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 16:23:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv5.lon1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f08:110::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A217E8FC1A for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 16:23:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vhoffman.lon.namesco.net (150.117-84-212.staticip.namesco.net [212.84.117.150]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o73GN6oN048991 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 17:23:07 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <4C58426A.9020905@unsane.co.uk> Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:23:06 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <201008021824.MAA22246@lariat.net> <4C5829FD.2050600@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Packet steering/SMP X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:23:09 -0000 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"