Harry, I wasn’t aware of anyone desiring vf support for igb but I’ll take a look at it for you if you can test -current with patches when I’m ready. My motive is more to validate and refine the iflib functionality and this is a good exercise.
On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 8:20 AM Harry Schmalzbauer <free...@omnilan.de> wrote: > Am 30.05.2018 um 16:45 schrieb Ryan Stone: > > On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 12:58 PM Sean Bruno <sbr...@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> Does anyone have a process for testing the VF drivers (ixgbe igb, etc) > >> in FreeBSD without actually firing up linux to instantiate a VM or using > >> EC2? > > We have native support for creating VFs for ixl and ixgbe (and cxgbe). > > For igb you're out of luck (but SR-IOV on igb is kind of a waste of > > time anyway) > > I'd like to note that I'm strongly missing SR-IOV for if_igb(4) and I > don't consider it as a waste of time, speaking of the time needed for > the setup – not the time to make the code happen; that's nothing I can > achive (not even estimate) so I won't try to judge about the sense of > that time relation... > > 82576 is a wonderful piece of hardware (mostly true for i350 also) and > I'm missing the ability to use VFs for jails and bhyve(8) likewise with > these NICs. > There are still many appliances that don't need 10GE rates and could > easily cope with FastEthernet rates. For such appliances, > security/design considerations have much more weight than throughput, > which VFs would greatly support implementation simplicity/consistency. > So igbv(4) is on top of my christmas wishlist ;-) > Two or three of the 2-port cards and a LACP switch-stack (GbE) make a > nice platform for a dozend VMs/jails – affordable by means of financial > and electrical power budget likewise. > > No tech aspects/justification here, just my experience based opinion. > > Thanks, > > -harry > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
