Peter Memishian wrote:
> I'd personally like to see ce myself since it is still present in lots of
> systems Sun sells, as well as their current quad ethernet card, though it
> sounds like it'd be a more complex task than the others.
Yes, there are a lot of obscure tunables with `ce' that make it a
challenging port to do without regressions. That said, as part of
Clearview's Nemo Unification work, ce can be used as-is and will appear
like any GLDv3 link -- e.g., you can create GLDv3-based aggregations,
VLANs and so forth. So far, the performance numbers look good too.
--
meem
Those tunables should still be available... e.g. via NDD or driver.conf,
or whatever. Nemo (at least until brussels) does nothing about that.
The complexity for ce comes from the fact that it does some other
"scary" things, e.g. optimizations for zero copy, etc. I suspect a lot
of the "custom" stuff in ce, though, is much more cleanly handled by nemo.
If someone wants me to work on a ce->nemo port, and wants to assure that
we can integrate the results into ON, then just say the word, and I'll
start working on it.
Ditto for qfe or gem.
Unless integrating into ON, I don't think using GLDv3 is appropriate at
this time.
-- Garrett
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