Hi Elias, On 05/28/2018 04:08 PM, Elias Abacioglu wrote: > Hi Willy and HAproxy folks! > > Sorry for bumping this old thread. But Solarflare recently released a new > Onload version. > http://www.openonload.org/download/openonload-201805-ReleaseNotes.txt > <http://www.openonload.org/download/openonload-201805-ReleaseNotes.txt> > > Here is a small excerpt from the Release Notes: > " > > A major overhaul to clustering and scalable filters enables new data > center use cases. > > Scalable filters direct all traffic for a given VI to Onload so that > the filter table size is not a constraint on the number of concurrent > connections supported efficiently. This release allows scalable filters > to be combined for both passive and active open connections and with RSS, > enabling very high transaction rates for use cases such as a reverse web > proxy. > > " > > So this NIC with Onload features requires tuning and perhaps a better > understanding of the Linux network stack than what I got to get working in a > high volume/frequency setup. > I am willing to gift one SFN8522(2x10Gbit/s SFP+) to the HAproxy team(within > EU there should be no toll) if you want to test the card and it's > capabilities. > I don't have any hard requirements for gifting this card, just that you got > the will to give it a fair shot. The only thing I want in return is that you > share your insights, good or bad. Perhaps we can get a working Onload profile > for HAproxy. They ship a example profile for nginx in onload-201805. I am > still very curious if Onload actually can offload the CPU more than regular a > NIC. > > I don't have an EnterpriseOnload license. But this card should get a free > ScaleoutOnload license(basically it's included in the card, but Dell forgot, > so I had to reach out to Solarflare support to get a free License). And > ScaleoutOnload is their OpenOnload. > I could help out with that if needed. > > So HAproxy team, you want this card to play with? > > /Elias
Yes, we are always interested testing hardware with our soft to advise the end users if they could have some benefits. But currently we are very busy and t thing we can't test your NIC before the last quarter of year. R, Emeric
