Re: Linux router network cards

[james jones <james.voip () gmail com>]

I wonder if they are going to get CUDA cores on the next version since they
are owned by NVIDIA now. That would be a powerful little package.


On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 1:42 AM Raymond Burkholder <ray () oneunified net>
wrote:

> On 2020-10-20 22:37, Philip Loenneker wrote:
> > Take a look at the Mellanox ConnectX 5 series of cards. They handle
> DPDK, PVRDMA (basically SR-IOV that allows live migration between hosts),
> and can even process packets within the NIC for some models. They did a
> fantastic presentation at AusNOG 2019 which showed off a lot of the
> features. We tried some out with Vmware and could get 20Gbps throughput
> (limited by the 2x 10G NICs we had configured) to a VM running Linux with
> DPDK+VPP.
>
> Plus Mellanox introduced the SwitchDev capability which provides for
> offloading flow management to the hardware.