Mellanox NICs (and basically all commercial NICs) do not do what we want. Softwa...

alexforencich on Jan 8, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Corundum: Open-source, high performance, FPGA-base...

Mellanox NICs (and basically all commercial NICs) do not do what we want. Software is not precise enough, and is on the wrong side of the NIC hardware queues. The whole point of Corundum is to get control of the hardware transmit scheduler on the NIC itself.