Re: impact on performance by querying Chelsio NIC filter rules
- In reply to: Navdeep Parhar : "Re: impact on performance by querying Chelsio NIC filter rules"
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Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 19:21:50 UTC
On 6/14/2022 3:13 PM, Navdeep Parhar wrote: > On 6/14/22 7:46 AM, mike tancsa wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I have been making use of the built in filtering capabilities of >> the Chelsio 10G and above NICs with great success so far. I have a >> new project that would mean querying the card (via cxgbetool t5nex0 >> filter list) every 5-10 seconds. Does the act of retrieving those >> values have any impact on the performance of the card ? I have about >> 50 rules right now. > > Filter retrieval in cxgbe is a lightweight activity involving a few > PCIe writes and reads. It has no impact on the performance of the > hardware's data path. > > Thanks Navdeep for the confirmation, not to mention the most excellent hardware and drivers! ---Mike