Well, since today's the 24th... Here's hoping that we get 1.1 in our stockings!
On 12/22/08, Raghuram Kothakota <Raghuram.Kothakota at sun.com> wrote: > Matt Walburn wrote: >> >> * NIU Hybrid I/O* >> >> >> As I remember, this is around being able to present a Crossbow >> virtual NIC directly to an LDOM without having to traverse a >> VSW. Do I have that right, or does this not depend on Crossbow >> integration with S10? >> >> >> This does not directly depend on Crossbow but on the NIU (Network >> Interface >> Unit) available on the UltraSPARC-T2 cpu. This provides the >> ability for a guest >> domain to directly access a physical network interface owned by an >> I/O domain. >> >> >> Ah... so would Crossbow then effectively give you a larger number of >> interfaces that you could present directly do your LDOMs then? > We have integrated LDoms network functionality to work with Crossbow, > with this now we leverage both h/w and s/w switching provided by the > Crossbow. Note, the VSW still exists in the layers of communication, but > with > reduced functionality, mostly managing and forwarding packets to the > Guest domains. > > NIU HybridIO feature is a new LDoms feature with which we can directly loan > the a few DMA channels to an vnet in a Guest domain. That is, > that the packets are directly delivered via h/w to the guest domain without > any proxy communication via VSW. The features provides increased network > bandwith to a guest with low latency and reduced cpu overhead. > Like Alex mentioned, this feature is limited to NIU in UltraSPARC-T2 > based platforms. Note, the NIU HybridIO feature has no direct relation with > Crossbow features, but this feature has been ported to work with > Crossbow also. > > -Raghuram. >> >> Another major feature coming with 1.1 (not listed below) is cold >> and warm >> migration of guest domains. >> >> >> I'm certainly interested in that as well! >> >> Thanks, >> Matt >> >> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 3:06 AM, klarien <klarien at gmail.com >> <mailto:klarien at gmail.com> <mailto:klarien at gmail.com >> <mailto:klarien at gmail.com>>> wrote: >> >> list of goodies i have un-officially collated >> >> 1. higher rev so it must be better - right :-) >> 2. some new command flags (was -e in 1.0.3 - can't remember) >> 3. VLAN support on vsw's >> 4. aggregate interface support >> 4. NIU Hybrid I/O >> 6. Virtual I/O dynamic reconfiguration >> 7. multi-pathing using multiple vdisk servers >> 8. ability to install Solaris on a virtual disk backed by a >> slice >> 9. iostat(1M) support in guest domains >> 10. improved interrupt redistribution >> 11. increased virtual networking performance due to >> improved locking. >> >> hopefully some fixes for the "slow as molasses" problem >> with SVM >> backed volumes if not get t-patch t139562-02 >> >> better checking when allocating back-end storage devices. >> >> I think Solaris 10u6 is also pretty much a pre-requite for 1.1 >> although I have got i t working ok on u5 and don't foget the >> firmware updates !!! >> >> anybdy else ? >> >> thanks >> -- >> This message posted from opensolaris.org >> <http://opensolaris.org> <http://opensolaris.org> >> _______________________________________________ >> ldoms-discuss mailing list >> ldoms-discuss at opensolaris.org >> <mailto:ldoms-discuss at opensolaris.org> >> <mailto:ldoms-discuss at opensolaris.org >> <mailto:ldoms-discuss at opensolaris.org>> >> >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ldoms-discuss >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ldoms-discuss mailing list >> ldoms-discuss at opensolaris.org >> <mailto:ldoms-discuss at opensolaris.org> >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ldoms-discuss >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ldoms-discuss mailing list >> ldoms-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ldoms-discuss >> > > -- -- Matt Walburn http://mattwalburn.com
