Hi Theo :) Ok sure, I will put on my cape-of-courage and start reading the source.. I may be some time!
On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 1:56 PM Theo de Raadt <dera...@openbsd.org> wrote: > We tend to keep our driver manual pages without detailed promises. > They do ethernet, they do it best effort, etc. > > What you want to know can be found by reading the source, or the > commit logs. Since this is a locally written driver, the code is > surprisingly approachable. > > Andrew Lemin <andrew.le...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi. I hope everyone is well and having a great day :) > > > > Just a quick question about the mcx (Mellanox 5th generation Ethernet > > device) drivers > > https://man.openbsd.org/mcx.4 > > > > The man page says nothing more than it supports; > > ConnectX-4 Lx EN > > ConnectX-4 EN > > ConnectX-5 EN > > ConnectX-6 EN > > > > I am looking for some clarity on what features and performance > > characteristics mcx boasts? > > > > For example are the following basic hardware features supported by this > > driver? > > IPv4 receive IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload > > IPv4 transmit TCP/UDP checksum offload > > VLAN tag insertion and stripping > > interrupt coalescing > > > > And what other features does it support? > > > > I also came across a comment in some forum a while back (so high quality > > information 😉) that mentioned Mellanox drivers in OpenBSD are SMP safe > and > > so not giant-locked. Is this true? > > > > Thanks, Andy, >
