[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-users] Xen IB code
On Friday 13 October 2006 7:28 pm, Nivedita Singhvi wrote: > Currently, it's quite behind, and has not been upgraded > for a while - we've put that work on hold due to working > on some other things first. If someone else has an interest > and can get to it first, that would be very welcome :). that's a pity, and hope it to gain some steam soon. i used to think of IB as "yet another niche SAN technology", like a FC-wannabe. but when i saw a presentation of IB and Xen, i understood how much better-thought it is, with it's 'hardware from userspace' architecture bypassing the kernel to get high throughput and low latency, and its 'one virtual card' for each app working great to give each DomU direct access to the same card, bypassing the Dom0 bottleneck. imagine a small motherboard with just a good IB interface and 100MB ethernet (for managing, not SAN/LAN), no disks, in a blade chassis, running Xen.... wouldn't that be just great? -- Javier Attachment:
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