Subject: Re: [vserver] Sponsoring VServer getting up to date with mainline
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:53:37 +0200

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:45:55PM +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 09:58:05PM +0100, Ed W wrote:
> > Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote:
> > >
> > >For this, I use Supermicro's AOC-SAT2-MV8. It's an 8-port card that costs 
> > >less than 100
> > >USD, though it does require a PCI-X slot. Granted it's got a Marvell 
> > >chipset, but I
> > >haven't had any problems with it.
> > >
> > >  
> > 
> > But who still has a PCI-X slot...  (I struggled just to find a 
> > motherboard with a sensible amount of PCI slots in recently to upgrade 
> > my media PC which needs a bunch of PCI tv cards in it! grr)
> > 
> > I think PCI-X is going to be close to saturated also?  It's only 1TB/s I 
> > think?  Given a couple of badly behaved devices chewing interrupts then 
> > I wonder how close you can get to theoretical given that you probably 
> > pull 60-100MB per drive these days? (straight line speed)
> 
> to be fair, an x16 PCIe has 'only' 4TB/s, but
> the problem is more that it seems to be going
> away (as you noted) and finding a proper board
> with two of those slots is non-trivial ...

GB not TB of course ... but TB would be cool! :)

> anyway, I think I don't want to revamp the
> entire system ... switching the controller is
> more than enough for now :)
> 
> best,
> Herbert
> 
> > Ed W