Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 10:16:49 -0800 From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org> To: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Meny Yossefi <menyy@mellanox.com>, Navdeep Parhar <np@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r312379 - in head: lib/libc/sys sbin/ifconfig sys/conf sys/kern sys/modules/if_lagg sys/modules/if_vlan sys/net sys/netinet sys/netinet6 sys/sys Message-ID: <20170118181649.GE2611@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <e6f78520-ebbc-f308-a281-dcc8fd02234a@selasky.org> References: <201701181331.v0IDVHWf048428@repo.freebsd.org> <20170118173132.GD2611@FreeBSD.org> <e6f78520-ebbc-f308-a281-dcc8fd02234a@selasky.org>
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 07:04:05PM +0100, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: H> > there were no production testing of the feature, H> > that will prove that the idea actually works. H> H> Hi Gleb, H> H> This feature has been tested small scale in production environments and H> it for sure saves CPU versus doing rate limiting all in software. H> H> Mellanox plans to checkin support for the mlx5en driver which starts H> using this feature soon and I believe np@ has similar plans for cxgbe. H> H> I'll reply to your other questions tomorrow. The pacing in general (either software or hardware) haven't yet been used in production anywhere, to my knowledge. So, let's decide is FreeBSD an academical experimental OS, where we throw bare fresh ideas in, or is it a mature production ready OS, which we recommend to install to end users, who aren't hackers theirselves? -- Totus tuus, Glebius.
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