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From: "Eggert, Lars" <lars@netapp.com>
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Subject: Re: Data Center Bridging?
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Cc: "Vogel, Jack" <jack.vogel@intel.com>, Navdeep Parhar <nparhar@gmail.com>
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Hi,

On Jan 22, 2013, at 19:23, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have never implemented this in the FreeBSD drivers primarily because th=
e
> motivation for it say, in Linux,
> was to handle multiple traffic classes, for instance FCOE or iSCSI, but
> FreeBSD has not had these features
> to implement this for.  Give me a reason to do it, and I can see about
> adding it :)

well, my motivation for asking was that I'll soon have some students invest=
igate various options for low-latency reliable communication over a private=
 fabric. DCB is one candidate.

On Jan 22, 2013, at 19:49, Navdeep Parhar <nparhar@gmail.com> wrote:
> cxgbe(4) hardware supports DCB/DCBX, but I haven't looked at what it
> would take to add driver + OS support.

Driver support for either Intel or Chelsio NICs would be great!

Lars=