I don't know nothing about mxge so I can't comment, but I know that
FreeBSD ixgbe driver is not even close to that of the Linux version. I
switched to Linux just for ixgbe as our network was being standardized
on 10G, and I think that's the best bet. The Linux version of the
driver is actively work
G'day Kip,
> I'm hoping to get to it some time in August. I'm a bit behind in my
> contracts at the moment.
A few weeks ago, I did a quick comparison of the driver between
FreeBSD and Linux, and found quite a few differences that's worth
pulling over. The guy from Intel working on FreeBSD, Jack?
> Hi Brian
> I very much doubt that this is ceteris paribus. This is 384 random IPs
> -> 384 random IP addresses with a flow lookup for each packet. Also,
> I've read through igb on Linux - it has a lot of optimizations that
> the FreeBSD driver lacks and I have yet to implement.
Hey Kip,
when wi
> I have a pre-production card. With some bug fixes and some tuning of
> interrupt handling (custom stack - I've been asked to push the changes
> back in to CVS, I just don't have time right now) an otherwise
> unoptimized igb can forward 1.04Mpps from one port to another (1.04
> Mpps in on igb0 a
I prefer (2) - non-intrusive on em, and the new one doesn't have to deal
with legacy or backward compatibility with em.
Any commonality with ixgbe?
Later
Brian.
On 10/29/07, Jack Vogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have an important decision to make and I thought rather than just make
> it
