ChipsLobstersabout 2 hours ago
fastSwan: Nvidia ConnectX-7 by numbers
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fastSwan benchmarks the Nvidia ConnectX-7 NIC standalone in an x86 chassis, rerunning the same protocol used on the Bluefield-3 DPU. The project introduces flower-mode (furious-mode) to push forwarding into the NIC via tc flower, requiring mlx5 kernel driver patches sent to Nvidia.
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