Am Montag, 3. Oktober 2016, 10:41:05 schrieb Andrew: > On 02.10.2016 23:37, Erich Titl wrote: > > Hi Andrew > > > > Am 02.10.2016 um 19:58 schrieb Andrew: > >> On 02.10.2016 20:45, Erich Titl wrote > >> > > :... > > : > >>> We need to find out if this is an issue for the majority of our users. > >>> most of the drivers will probably just work as they work in standad > >>> distros. > >> > >> This is issue for everybody who uses intel server cards in high-load > >> applications. > > > > Yes and this is why I asked if this was an issue for the _majority_ > > I don't know statistics how much people uses LEAF as home box/small > office router, and how much people uses LEAF somewhere in production > environment with high traffic. > I know at least some people who uses LEAF in production (access > servers/borders/etc), and I know only one case of usage as office > router(just because soho router in that place frequently hangs). > > > ... > > > >> Actually intel NIC card is the only available choice for high-troughput > >> routing. Other cards have too high CPU usage, or starts to drop packets > >> at 60-70% of bandwidth usage. > > > > So on a Gbit card you would have a throughput of roughly 600 Mbit. For > > most users and I said _most_ users they will never be able to buy that > > much power. > > > > And unless you have a massive parallel system you will have difficulties > > to pass that much data through any kind of traffic management. I > > observed issues in that aera, never at NIC level. > > > > So - yes, if it isn't a home routing box, > > > >> it uses Intel NIC. > > > > Still the same question, is this an issue for the majority and therefore > > a killer criterion? It might well be so, but I would like to know numbers. > > > > I for once do not have any intel NICs in usage, but yes, I did use them > > a few years back and might have been happy to have hight troughput, but; > > even then I never had a saturation issue at hand. YMMV > > > > Still I would not consider it a killer criterion, but yes, if someone is > > willing to put in the effort to overcome limitations in that area, > > great. I understand that you are working in a high speed/throughput > > environment and there I see of course the usefulness of having > > specialized drivers, but I _guess_ the majority of our users are not > > limited there. They have problems in the integration of some of our > > packages as seen lately in the leaf-user list. > > > > cheers and yes, please if you have spare time to integrate those > > drivers, go for it. > > > > ET > > It isn't too hard to integrate them. I'll try to update drivers to > latest version in master (which is 4.4-based), because there's no > 4.7-based branch in git.
This was meant as testing what has to be done when moving to a newer kernl, prefrrably a LTS as well. And it occured that migrations issues will be with e1000e and igb. There will be enough time to solve once we move on. kp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
