Hi everyone, Just a couple very quick 5.9 questions;
1) Will 5.9 have a 64bit integer for the queue sizes, or are we still limited to ~4294M? 2) When 5.9 comes out, will the new ARC routing table be enabled by default? If not can we turn it on without building from source? 3) Does anyone know which parts of the Network stack will have MP support in 5.9? MP NIC Interrupts, yes/no? MP Network Stack, yes/no? MP Queueing, yes/no? MP PF, yes/no? HW Offloading and other general MP NIC driver stuff (em(), ix()) yes/no? Any other important parts needing MP? It is difficult to understand where we are currently. I know we are excitingly close with the MP work (and thank you again for such amazing work!), but we need to know for business decision reasons because simply we are growing faster than OpenBSD's performance is, and we also have a new VP..... So I'm deeply saddened to realise that if the MP networking commits do not make it in to get us above 4Gbps in 5.9 we will have to say goodbye to OpenBSD for good (I really seriously don't want too because OpenBSD is better than *any* firewalls out there, but we are still a business and need to make money, and we need more than 2-4Gbps). NB; 4Gbps is all we've managed on our current hardware class and 2Gbps with PF enabled. Hardware: Supermicro X9DRW-iF 4x 1866 DDR3 DIMMS Cpu0/1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2637 v2 @ 3.50GHz, Turbo+ enabled = 3600.01 MHz (Virtualisation, Hyperthreading and extra Cores disabled) Intel 82599 10Gbps NICs We need to be getting closer to 8Gbps with PF enabled by this summer, or I've been told to replace OpenBSD with something faster.. FreeBSD can max the 10G ports, but FBSD is not good enough for us in many other ways, so would mean a move to commercial firewalls (Hurghh). I REALLY don't want to have to walk away from OpenBSD in my current job :_( Cheers, Andy. Thanks everyone, and good luck on these big changes..
