Re: nice stuff from cloudflare (and, we need something like ethtool!)

2015-10-23 Thread Eric Joyner
Bump -- I'd be okay with adding hooks to at least one Intel ethernet driver for whatever comes out of this. On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 1:47 AM Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Jim Thompson wrote: > > > > > > > >> On Oct 16, 2015, at 12:06 AM, Ian Smith wrote: > >> > >>>

Re: nice stuff from cloudflare (and, we need something like ethtool!)

2015-10-19 Thread Sepherosa Ziehau
On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Jim Thompson wrote: > > > >> On Oct 16, 2015, at 12:06 AM, Ian Smith wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 17:03:55 +0800, Julian Elischer wrote: On 10/10/15 10:59 PM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: the nice folks at cloudflare implemented a nice feature in netmap

Re: nice stuff from cloudflare (and, we need something like ethtool!)

2015-10-15 Thread Jim Thompson
> On Oct 16, 2015, at 12:06 AM, Ian Smith wrote: > >> On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 17:03:55 +0800, Julian Elischer wrote: >>> On 10/10/15 10:59 PM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >>> the nice folks at cloudflare implemented a nice feature >>> in netmap that puts some queues of the NIC in netmap mode >>> leaving ot

Re: nice stuff from cloudflare (and, we need something like ethtool!)

2015-10-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 17:03:55 +0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > On 10/10/15 10:59 PM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > the nice folks at cloudflare implemented a nice feature > > in netmap that puts some queues of the NIC in netmap mode > > leaving others attached to the host stack > > > > https://blog.c

Re: nice stuff from cloudflare (and, we need something like ethtool!)

2015-10-15 Thread Adrian Chadd
Bug me in like a week or two. I may just say "frack it" and start writing an ethtool analogue for FreeBSD. It's actually very easy; it's just not "BSD-y". (Mostly because I'm fed up with the two-hundred-odd entry ioctl structs for each wireless driver type just to pull out statistics. Ugh.) -a

Re: nice stuff from cloudflare (and, we need something like ethtool!)

2015-10-15 Thread Julian Elischer
On 10/10/15 10:59 PM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: the nice folks at cloudflare implemented a nice feature in netmap that puts some queues of the NIC in netmap mode leaving others attached to the host stack https://blog.cloudflare.com/single-rx-queue-kernel-bypass-with-netmap/ and use ethtool (and native

nice stuff from cloudflare (and, we need something like ethtool!)

2015-10-10 Thread Luigi Rizzo
the nice folks at cloudflare implemented a nice feature in netmap that puts some queues of the NIC in netmap mode leaving others attached to the host stack https://blog.cloudflare.com/single-rx-queue-kernel-bypass-with-netmap/ and use ethtool (and native NIC filters) to steer traffic around. [FWI