On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:35:56AM -0600, Jim Thompson wrote:

> > Can the blobs be reversed so easily? (Too bad about lack of IPv6 
> > offloading, but we can live with that for a while, I guess).
> 
> I don’t know.  If you’re really curious, you can read this:
> http://university.caviumnetworks.com/downloads/Mini_version_of_Prog_Guide_EDU_July_2010.pdf
> to find out how to get ahold  the real programming guide from Cavium, then 
> read Chapter 2 “Packet Flow” in same.
> 
> This might give you some ideas as well: 
> https://hactive.googlecode.com/files/CN50XX-HRM-V0.99E.pdf
> Note that this link seems to support the idea that IPv6 processing is 
> supported by the hardware (see, for example, Sections 7.2.4, 7.5 and 7.7).

Thanks, interesting.
 
> I do know that *I* don’t want to invest a ton of RE effort in a $99 platform 
> that bears near zero margins, when far, far faster 
> Intel / AMD platforms that aren’t more than 2-3X the price are just around 
> the corner.  Note slide 17 in this:
> https://noppa.aalto.fi/noppa/kurssi/s-38.3310/harjoitustyot/S-38_3310_matias_elo.pdf

Are you aware of serius efforts to use GPU (OpenCL) accelerated packet 
processing
in FreeBSD?
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