> * NIU Hybrid I/O* >> >> As I remember, this is around being able to present a Crossbow virtual NIC >> directly to an LDOM without having to traverse a VSW. Do I have that right, >> or does this not depend on Crossbow integration with S10? >> > > This does not directly depend on Crossbow but on the NIU (Network > Interface > Unit) available on the UltraSPARC-T2 cpu. This provides the ability for a > guest > domain to directly access a physical network interface owned by an I/O > domain. >
Ah... so would Crossbow then effectively give you a larger number of interfaces that you could present directly do your LDOMs then? Another major feature coming with 1.1 (not listed below) is cold and warm > migration of guest domains. I'm certainly interested in that as well! Thanks, Matt On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 3:06 AM, klarien <klarien at gmail.com <mailto: >> klarien at gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> list of goodies i have un-officially collated >> >> 1. higher rev so it must be better - right :-) >> 2. some new command flags (was -e in 1.0.3 - can't remember) >> 3. VLAN support on vsw's >> 4. aggregate interface support >> 4. NIU Hybrid I/O >> 6. Virtual I/O dynamic reconfiguration >> 7. multi-pathing using multiple vdisk servers >> 8. ability to install Solaris on a virtual disk backed by a slice >> 9. iostat(1M) support in guest domains >> 10. improved interrupt redistribution >> 11. increased virtual networking performance due to improved locking. >> >> hopefully some fixes for the "slow as molasses" problem with SVM >> backed volumes if not get t-patch t139562-02 >> >> better checking when allocating back-end storage devices. >> >> I think Solaris 10u6 is also pretty much a pre-requite for 1.1 >> although I have got i t working ok on u5 and don't foget the >> firmware updates !!! >> >> anybdy else ? >> >> thanks >> -- >> This message posted from opensolaris.org <http://opensolaris.org> >> _______________________________________________ >> ldoms-discuss mailing list >> ldoms-discuss at opensolaris.org <mailto:ldoms-discuss at opensolaris.org> >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ldoms-discuss >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ldoms-discuss mailing list >> ldoms-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ldoms-discuss >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ldoms-discuss/attachments/20081222/bfbba0b8/attachment.html>
