From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Thu Jun 2 16:35:28 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 565ADB619ED for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2016 16:35:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from mail.nomadlogic.org (mail.nomadlogic.org [IPv6:2607:f2f8:a098::4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 121E517D4 for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2016 16:35:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from mail.nomadlogic.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.nomadlogic.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2E911125EE2 for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2016 09:35:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.41.105] (unknown [72.34.113.100]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.nomadlogic.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1F742125EBA for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2016 09:35:19 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Status of Cavium ThunderX/ThunderX2 To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org References: From: Pete Wright Message-ID: Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 09:35:18 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2016 16:35:28 -0000 On 06/02/2016 06:02 AM, Kevin Day wrote: > Hey, everyone! > > I’ve done some searching and can’t seem to find anything recent. What’s the current status of the Cavium ThunderX? Is it reasonably stable in -CURRENT? Does the dual socket version work yet? > > I also saw a few days ago they announced the ThunderX2 parts, with a quote from the FreeBSD Foundation expressing support for it. I've been meaning to run some tests on a single socket thunderX next week once I wrap up some linux testing I am doing. i would like to see the dual-socket thunderX supported as well, although until FreeBSD has more robust NUMA support I would expect it to be sub-optimal when compared to linux performance wise. iirc there is a bunch of NUMA work going into 11 so hopefully that day isn't too far off. cheers, -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org