does freebsd support so called Scalable I/O on intel NIC ?

[Kip Macy]

It is simply a knob to adjust on all new server network cards. You
could benefit from it on a predominantly UDP workload. I believe that
tcp_input is still sufficiently serialized that it would not make
sense for TCP workloads.

-Kip

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Bartosz Giza <gizmen at blurp.pl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i am looking for a good NIC from NIC to put on our quite busy router based
> on freebsd 6.3 (soon 7.x)
> I've found server NIC from intel and there is such a thing like scalable I/O
> on windows and linux.
> (from web page)
>
> "load balancing on multiple CPUs Increases
> performance on multi-processor systems by efficiently
> balancing network loads across CPU cores when used
> with Receive-Side Scaling from Microsoft or Scalable
>  I/O on Linux*"
>
> Is such thing supported on freebsd ?
>
> And one more question. Does anybody has some data what is difference on
> desktop and server NIC from INTEL in pps or so.
> I wonder how faster could be those server NICs
>
> thanks
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