NIC Driver Features

1Gbps/10Gbps Ethernet Driver Features in Crossbow

The following table presents an overview of the NIC features that are supported in Crossbow putback #1.

Legend:
- Y: has been available in Crossbow gate
- N: ongoing development work

- RSS: Receive Side Scaling
- RTS: Receive Traffic Steering

---	---	bge (Broadcom)	e1000g (Intel Ophir)	igb (Intel Zoar/Kawela)	ixgbe (Intel Oplin XFrame)	nxge (Sun Neptune)	xge (Neterion XframeII)
---	---	1 GbE	1 GbE	1 GbE	10 GbE	1 GbE or 10 GbE	10 GbE
Multiple TX ring support for better performance	Hardware Rings Available	4	2	4	32	4 or 8	8
	Framework Support Available	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
	Driver Available	N	N	Y	Y	Y	Y
Multiple TX ring and ring support for L2 Virtualization	Hardware Rings Available	4	n/a	4	16	2 or 4	1 or 8
	Framework Support Available	Y	n/a	Y	Y	Y	Y
	Driver Available	Y	n/a	Y	Y	Y	Y
	Comment	Simple*1	n/a	VMDq	VMDq	L2 Classifier and Ring Groups	n/a or RTS
L3/L4 ring support using H/W Rx rings	Hardware Rings Available	1	2	4	64	4 or 8	8 or 1
	Framework Support Available	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
	Driver Available	Y	N	Y	Y	Y	Y
	Comment	n/a	RSS	RSS	RSS	L3,L4 Classifier	RTS or n/a
MSI-X Support for better performance	Hardware Rings Available	n/a*2	Y	8+1	16+1+1	16+	16+1
	Framework Support Availabe	---	---	Y	Y	Y	Y
	Driver Available	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y

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Created by admin on 2009/10/26 12:13

Last modified by Raoul Carag on 2009/11/17 19:29