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Date:      Mon, 29 May 2006 18:52:34 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Paul Allen <nospam@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Cc:        gallatin@freebsd.org, "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Importing iSCSI target from NetBSD
Message-ID:  <20060530015234.GB26022@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20060530004328.GF28128@groat.ugcs.caltech.edu>
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On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 05:43:28PM -0700, Paul Allen wrote:
> >From Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, Mon, May 29, 2006 at 05:51:28PM -06=
00:
> > >P.S. Just to make it clear - just consider running iSCSI over 100MBps=
=20
> > >link or even a slower WAN links, which I think covers very large marke=
t=20
> > >for this technology now. Performance constrain imposed by running in=
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> > >userland is unlikely to be an issue at all.
> > >
> > >-Maxim
> >=20
> > Every company and group that I've talked to about iSCSI is worried about
> > performance.  In any case, please follow the lead of Mr. Senault and
> > look at making this a port.
> >=20
> > Scott
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> And in particular the anticipation of low(er) cost  10Gb Ethernet is a
> driving factor behind iSCSI.
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> AFAIK, the low-latency performer in this field (for NICs) is from Myricom.
> Andrew Gallatin (one of the FreeBSD alpha committers)  was responsible fo=
r=20
> porting the myrinet drivers, so perhaps he can comment as to whether Free=
BSD=20
> will be getting a driver for their 10GbE cards.  Ethernet at these speeds=
 is=20
> real stress-test for many OSs; it should be interesting to see how FreeBS=
D=20
> holds-up.

There's a driver in current.  We don't perform nearly as well as we
should at the moment.

-- Brooks

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