True. Or we might end up sharing drivers between projects too.
In my experience high-end systems choose hardware to match software, so you only need to support one suitable option. The main reason we would add support for a new NIC is if it turns out to be better in some way e.g. as Mellanox support 40G now and Intel don't.
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True. Or we might end up sharing drivers between projects too.
In my experience high-end systems choose hardware to match software, so you only need to support one suitable option. The main reason we would add support for a new NIC is if it turns out to be better in some way e.g. as Mellanox support 40G now and Intel don't.
In Snabb Switch have a lot of 10G/40G NICs online for people to play with now: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/snabb-devel/PXOsv0uLQCE/HjPj...