On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 4:48 PM, John Jasen <jja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > b) On the negative side, between the various releases, netmap appeared > to be unstable with the Chelsio cards -- sometimes supported, sometimes > broken. Also, we're still trying to figure out netmap utilities, such as > vale-ctl and bridge, so any advice would be appreciated. > I confirm that mixing netmap and Chelsio is broken on -current since about 6 month. We can't start 2 netmap's pkt-gen simultaneously as example. cf my report: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2016-December/094418.html > > b.1) netmap-fwd is admittedly single-threaded and does not support IPv6. > These clearly showed in our tests, as we were unable to achieve over 2.5 > mpps, saturating a single CPU and letting the others fall asleep. > However, bumping a single CPU queue from around 0.6 mpps to 2.5 mpps is > nothing to ignore, so it could be useful in some cases. > Softwares using netmap are not easy to use: - netmap-ipfw (https://github.com/Netgate/netmap-fwd) was not updated since dec 2015. - And I don't reach to compile netmap-ipfw too ( https://github.com/luigirizzo/netmap-ipfw). > c) The routing improvement project USB stick performed incredibly, > achieving 8.5 mpps out of the box. However, it appears > (https://wiki.freebsd.org/ProjectsRoutingProposal/ConversionStatus), > that many of the changes are still pending review, and that things have > not moved much in the last 18 months > (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/projects/routing/) > Yes, this projects/routing still give the best performance after 18 months, but the maintainer didn't have time to works on FreeBSD since. Then for resuming: there are 3 alpha-stage but very promising projects, but they seems stuck because not enough manpower for finishing them. Regards, _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"