On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 05:43:28PM -0700, Paul Allen wrote: > >From Scott Long <scottl_at_samsco.org>, Mon, May 29, 2006 at 05:51:28PM -0600: > > >P.S. Just to make it clear - just consider running iSCSI over 100MBps > > >link or even a slower WAN links, which I think covers very large market > > >for this technology now. Performance constrain imposed by running in > > >userland is unlikely to be an issue at all. > > > > > >-Maxim > > > > Every company and group that I've talked to about iSCSI is worried about > > performance. In any case, please follow the lead of Mr. Senault and > > look at making this a port. > > > > Scott > > And in particular the anticipation of low(er) cost 10Gb Ethernet is a > driving factor behind iSCSI. > > AFAIK, the low-latency performer in this field (for NICs) is from Myricom. > Andrew Gallatin (one of the FreeBSD alpha committers) was responsible for > porting the myrinet drivers, so perhaps he can comment as to whether FreeBSD > will be getting a driver for their 10GbE cards. Ethernet at these speeds is > real stress-test for many OSs; it should be interesting to see how FreeBSD > holds-up. There's a driver in current. We don't perform nearly as well as we should at the moment. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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