Hi Andrew Am 02.10.2016 um 19:58 schrieb Andrew: > On 02.10.2016 20:45, Erich Titl wrote
:... >> We need to find out if this is an issue for the majority of our users. >> most of the drivers will probably just work as they work in standad >> distros. > This is issue for everybody who uses intel server cards in high-load > applications. Yes and this is why I asked if this was an issue for the _majority_ > ... > Actually intel NIC card is the only available choice for high-troughput > routing. Other cards have too high CPU usage, or starts to drop packets > at 60-70% of bandwidth usage. So on a Gbit card you would have a throughput of roughly 600 Mbit. For most users and I said _most_ users they will never be able to buy that much power. And unless you have a massive parallel system you will have difficulties to pass that much data through any kind of traffic management. I observed issues in that aera, never at NIC level. So - yes, if it isn't a home routing box, > it uses Intel NIC. Still the same question, is this an issue for the majority and therefore a killer criterion? It might well be so, but I would like to know numbers. I for once do not have any intel NICs in usage, but yes, I did use them a few years back and might have been happy to have hight troughput, but even then I never had a saturation issue at hand. YMMV Still I would not consider it a killer criterion, but yes, if someone is willing to put in the effort to overcome limitations in that area, great. I understand that you are working in a high speed/throughput environment and there I see of course the usefulness of having specialized drivers, but I _guess_ the majority of our users are not limited there. They have problems in the integration of some of our packages as seen lately in the leaf-user list. cheers and yes, please if you have spare time to integrate those drivers, go for it. ET ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
