On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 09:10:20PM -0800, Vijay Singh wrote: > Hi. I would like to try out a 10G NIC from Broadcom. The BCM5716 seems > promising. I am looking for features such as multi-queue, MSI-X, TSO > etc. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. > > -vijay > > PS: I'd be using FreeBSD 8.2 initially, and FreeBSD 9.x in a few months.
AFAIK BCM5716 is a gigabit ethernet and bce(4) supports the controller. bce(4) lacks multi-queue support but all other hardware features are supported. Enabling multi-queue for both bce(4) and bge(4) is one of my TODO list but I couldn't find spare time to do that. As John said, bxe(4) supports Broadcom's 10G controllers, BCM5771x. The driver supports all hardware features you mentioned(including multi-queue through RSS/TSS). Unlike most other 10G controllers, these controllers support hardware based true LRO which would outperform software based implementation. bxe(4) is not available on 8.x yet. _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
