Saku, You seem to be very familiar with the major routing vendors implementations on SMP. Do you consider the lack of SMP support on Juniper a reason not to go with Juniper until implemented. Particularly interested to hear about JunOS vs TimOS.
On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Saku Ytti <s...@ytti.fi> wrote: > On 3 October 2015 at 03:41, Olivier Benghozi > <olivier.bengh...@wifirst.fr> wrote: > > Hey, > > > I have heard that: > > 1) forget it about PowerPC CPUs (MX 80/104). > > This is shame, but completely understandable, give customers couple > more years on old kit or force them to buy new kit? I'm afraid maybe > no HW of current generation will get SMP support. I'm sure marketing > is pondering lot how many customers would switch vendor versus how > many customers would just buy new next-gen hardware when deciding > which platforms to target for SMP. > > I honestly believe that SMP is weekend project for single developer on > JunOS now that they've remedied the underlaying FreeBSD issues. Fixing > rpd mess is certainly big deal. But just affinity to put RPD on its > own core and rest on the other core on MX80/MX104 should be terribly > trivial. > > Even radar plans for RPD + threads is far cry from what other vendors > are doing already with SMP on XR, EOS and particularly TimOS. But > still very nice that JNPR is finally doing something. > > -- > ++ytti > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp