Re: Packet steering/SMP

2010-08-03 Thread Robert Watson
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Vincent Hoffman wrote: Fasinating stuff. I read http://www.ntop.org/blog/?p=86 to mean that the newer intel NICs had similar capabilities to the Chelsio T3, is it just a lack of driver and control support in FreeBSD or did I misunderstand? The Intel cards I've looked at of

Re: Packet steering/SMP

2010-08-03 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Brett Glass wrote: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9180022/Latest_Linux_kernel_uses_Google_made_protocols describes SMP optimizations to the Linux kernel (the article mistakenly calls them "protocols," but they're not) which steer the processing of incoming network

FreeBSD-Google SoC poster

2010-03-24 Thread Robert Watson
Dear all: We now have our Google Summer of Code 2010 poster on the FreeBSD.org web site: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/2010-freebsd-gsoc.pdf If you're at a college/university, or know someone who is, please see if you can get this plastered around the place! We'll continue to update our

Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community

2008-01-12 Thread Robert Watson
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Timo Schoeler wrote: (I don't even think bsdforen.de is the largest German BSD community, but that's a different story). Even in case it's the second biggest forum, it shouldn't be ignored; I agree completely, it shouldn't be ignored. (Whether it's the first, second or th