>>Well, since today's the 24th... Here's hoping that we get 1.1 in our >>stockings!
It's available to the public - I just downloaded it ... Bernd Matt Walburn wrote: > 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 >>> >>> >> > > > -- Bernd Schemmer, Frankfurt am Main, Germany http://home.arcor.de/bnsmb/index.html M s temprano que tarde el mundo cambiar . Fidel Castro
