On 2016-02-07, Andy Lemin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Just a couple very quick 5.9 questions; > > > 1) Will 5.9 have a 64bit integer for the queue sizes, or are we still > limited to ~4294M?
There haven't been any changes in that area. > 2) When 5.9 comes out, will the new ARC routing table be enabled by > default? If not can we turn it on without building from source? ART not ARC. It's not enabled by default, you'll need to build a new kernel to use it. > 3) Does anyone know which parts of the Network stack will have MP support > in 5.9? > MP NIC Interrupts, yes/no? > MP Network Stack, yes/no? > MP Queueing, yes/no? > MP PF, yes/no? > HW Offloading and other general MP NIC driver stuff (em(), ix()) yes/no? > Any other important parts needing MP? > > > It is difficult to understand where we are currently. I know we are > excitingly close with the MP work (and thank you again for such amazing > work!), but we need to know for business decision reasons because simply we > are growing faster than OpenBSD's performance is, and we also have a new > VP..... > > So I'm deeply saddened to realise that if the MP networking commits do not > make it in to get us above 4Gbps in 5.9 we will have to say goodbye to > OpenBSD for good (I really seriously don't want too because OpenBSD is > better than *any* firewalls out there, but we are still a business and need > to make money, and we need more than 2-4Gbps). > > NB; 4Gbps is all we've managed on our current hardware class and 2Gbps with > PF enabled. > > Hardware: > Supermicro X9DRW-iF > 4x 1866 DDR3 DIMMS > Cpu0/1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2637 v2 @ 3.50GHz, Turbo+ enabled = 3600.01 > MHz (Virtualisation, Hyperthreading and extra Cores disabled) > Intel 82599 10Gbps NICs > > > We need to be getting closer to 8Gbps with PF enabled by this summer, or > I've been told to replace OpenBSD with something faster.. FreeBSD can max > the 10G ports, but FBSD is not good enough for us in many other ways, so > would mean a move to commercial firewalls (Hurghh). > > I REALLY don't want to have to walk away from OpenBSD in my current job :_( > > Cheers, Andy. > > Thanks everyone, and good luck on these big changes.. > > Good luck with the commercial firewalls!
