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From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
To: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r312379 - in head: lib/libc/sys sbin/ifconfig
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 07:04:05PM +0100, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
H> > there were no production testing of the feature,
H> > that will prove that the idea actually works.
H> 
H> Hi Gleb,
H> 
H> This feature has been tested small scale in production environments and 
H> it for sure saves CPU versus doing rate limiting all in software.
H> 
H> Mellanox plans to checkin support for the mlx5en driver which starts 
H> using this feature soon and I believe np@ has similar plans for cxgbe.
H> 
H> I'll reply to your other questions tomorrow.

The pacing in general (either software or hardware) haven't yet been used
in production anywhere, to my knowledge.

So, let's decide is FreeBSD an academical experimental OS, where we throw
bare fresh ideas in, or is it a mature production ready OS, which we recommend
to install to end users, who aren't hackers theirselves?

-- 
Totus tuus, Glebius.