Is the Intel E830 supported? Specifically the E830-CQDA2 dual-QSFP100G card?

not yet

i'm actively working on it

however, the NIC is _insanely_ complicated

it's a NIC, a switch, a CPU, and a floor wax

jbk: So... long story short, the person who swore he was selling us a supported card... well. Anyway, can I be a pest and ask how long you think it'll be before it is supported at a production level?

no idea.. i'm hoping it'll soon be to the point where it can actually start passing traffic to be able to really kick the tires

I've got a host that I haven't put into production yet because I want to get the network issues resolved before making it so that I can't. Would it be helpful to you to have me run some tests?

it'd certainly be nice to get as much testing as possible..

I should warn you, this is the first time I've dealt with a QSFP so I'm not sure my Juniper switch is properly configured. (I had planned to spend some quality time with their support people after I got the card installed. So much for that plan for now.)

but I'm happy to install any T-patch you want and see what happens. You'll probably need to give me very specific and clear instructions :)

though that does remind me... i've not received any reviews on my i40e fixes

Sorry. I haven't had the ability to test it in anger yet (and I know *just* the way to do it), but it's Triton release week @jbk.

np, it's been like 2-3 weeks w/o anyone biting, so figure it's probably time to ask again...

jbk: noticed a couple things in a first look..

jbk: if you really want functional overload, take a look at the intel IPU's (mt evans/E2100 I think).

the problem is, even if you don't care about having a full blown network switch, or a CPU where you can run LLDP and all sorts of other things, you still have to manage those aspects

(e.g. multicast and promiscuous mode require programming the switch's NIC filters on the 'port')

a floor wax?

and it also suffers from Intel's rather unfortunate (to put it kindly) DMA limitations for LSO

which are more poorly documented in each successive model NIC

"let's throw every single functional unit that might 'help' virtualize a system onto the NIC. compression! encryption! NVME target mode so we can make your globe-spanning cloud storage stack look like local flash!"

<joke>let's make illumos run on the card!</joke valence="completely unserious">

(those DMA limitations are the reason for that i40e changes btw)

LXGHTNXNG: it's a reference to an old Saturday Night Live sketch which was a TV commercial spoof for a product that was both a dessert topping and a floor wax

thanks, now I don't want to drink my teea.

same

[illumos-gate] 18097 sys/pci.h: add few missing PCI power management 1.2 constants -- Toomas Soome <tsoome⊙mc>