Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:34:15 +0000 From: "Eggert, Lars" <lars@netapp.com> To: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Cc: "Vogel, Jack" <jack.vogel@intel.com>, Navdeep Parhar <nparhar@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Data Center Bridging? Message-ID: <D4D47BCFFE5A004F95D707546AC0D7E91F65480A@SACEXCMBX01-PRD.hq.netapp.com> In-Reply-To: <50FEDF3A.60806@gmail.com> References: <D4D47BCFFE5A004F95D707546AC0D7E91F64ED21@SACEXCMBX01-PRD.hq.netapp.com> <50FEDF3A.60806@gmail.com>
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Hi, On Jan 22, 2013, at 19:23, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> wrote: > I have never implemented this in the FreeBSD drivers primarily because th= e > motivation for it say, in Linux, > was to handle multiple traffic classes, for instance FCOE or iSCSI, but > FreeBSD has not had these features > to implement this for. Give me a reason to do it, and I can see about > adding it :) well, my motivation for asking was that I'll soon have some students invest= igate various options for low-latency reliable communication over a private= fabric. DCB is one candidate. On Jan 22, 2013, at 19:49, Navdeep Parhar <nparhar@gmail.com> wrote: > cxgbe(4) hardware supports DCB/DCBX, but I haven't looked at what it > would take to add driver + OS support. Driver support for either Intel or Chelsio NICs would be great! Lars=
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