On 2021-09-29, Andrew Lemin <andrew.le...@gmail.com> wrote: > And to answer my last question about SMP capabilities, it looks like the > only locking going on is when the driver is talking to the Kernel itself > through kstat which would make sense. So yes it looks like mcx does have > SMP support :)
$ cd /sys/dev/pci; grep pci_intr_establish_cpu * if_bnxt.c: bq->q_ihc = pci_intr_establish_cpu(sc->sc_pc, ih, if_ix.c: que->tag = pci_intr_establish_cpu(pa->pa_pc, ih, if_ixl.c: iv->iv_ihc = pci_intr_establish_cpu(sc->sc_pc, ih, if_mcx.c: q->q_ihc = pci_intr_establish_cpu(sc->sc_pc, ih, if_vmx.c: q->ih = pci_intr_establish_cpu(pa->pa_pc, ih, > Well its enough for me to buy a card from ebay to play with > as the ConnectX-4 Lx cards are pretty cheap now. new (from fs) aren't much more expensive either btw. >> I was able to decipher some of it using this >> https://www.mellanox.com/related-docs/user_manuals/Ethernet_Adapters_Programming_Manual.pdf >> (this is very well written). nvidia bought the company so that might be the high point in the documentation for these..
