[Cake] [Cerowrt-devel] expressobin

[dpreed at deepplum.com]

https://www.cnx-software.com/2018/08/03/clearfog-gt-8k-high-end-networking-sbc-marvell-armada-a8040-processor/

Looks interesting... I like the SFP+ being there, too.

(Regarding Xilinx ... My focus is on the FPGA. The ARM cores are less interesting, other than that the FPGA side can directly access their cache system creating a powerful, fast, coherent autonomous DDR backed memory addressable memeory for packets that does not need processor intervention. But Xilinx parts are not cheap)




-----Original Message-----
From: "Dave Taht" <dave.taht at gmail.com>
Sent: Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 4:06 pm
To: dpreed at deepplum.com
Cc: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke at toke.dk>, "Daniel Ezell" <dezell at stonescry.com>, "Cake List" <cake at lists.bufferbloat.net>, cerowrt-devel at lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] expressobin

On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 5:49 AM dpreed at deepplum.com  wrote:
>
> Yeah. Small FF 2 port Celeron board is what I use. And I have a 4 port Atom that runs like a bat out of hell.
>
> Currenty fiddling with Xilinx Dev boards, just put packet processing in FPGA for Cake, and no problem with 2.5 - 10 Gb/sec. Just need a free piece of low level SFP+ interfacing logic.

cool. which? ultrascale?

I was looking over
http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~ssradhak/Papers/senic-nsdi14.pdf again

> My use case is using the open ChipLink/TileLink bus from RISCV rather than PCIe, making something that might be an open source ASIC design.

How fast can that cpu context switch?

>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" 
> Sent: Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 5:23 am
> To: "Dave Taht" , "Daniel Ezell" 
> Cc: "Dave Taht" , "Daniel Ezell" , "Cake List" , cerowrt-devel at lists.bufferbloat.net
> Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] expressobin
>
> Dave Taht  writes:
>
> > It turns out it's just two ethernets with one, connected to a 2 port
> > switch. Not what I wanted. I'd wanted something different from the
> > apu2 or edgerouter X to play with, and I know the mvneta driver was
> > bql'd.
>
> I bought one of these to play with:
> https://teklager.se/en/products/routers/tlsense-i3-4lan
>
> x86 (i3 processor), four real ethernet ports, and passively cooled. A
> bit pricy, though; more than $400... But doubles well as a combined
> switch and media player :)
>
> -Toke
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