[talk] Solarflare Precision Time Synchronization

[George Neville-Neil]

On Apr 11, 2014, at 15:54 , Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:

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> 
> On 04/11/14 12:39, George Neville-Neil wrote:
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>> On Apr 11, 2014, at 13:44 , Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:
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>>> I've been a big fan of Solarflare 10GBE NICs for a while now, good docs,
>>> stable freebsd and linux drivers and helpful support.
>>> 
>>> so i was looking at their products today and noticed they have a
>>> Precision Time Synchronization product:
>>> 
>>> http://www.solarflare.com/PTP-Server-Adapters
>>> 
>>> Anyone have experience using this guy?  Or any thoughts about Solarflare
>>> in general?
>>> 
>> 
>> They are not well supported (yet) on FreeBSD but that is being improved now,
>> and we may soon have support for SolarFlare’s PTP daemon, which is a derivative
>> of http://ptpd.sf.net
> 
> oh fantastic - thanks for the heads up GNN!
> 
> if i'm able to get my hands on an eval unit one day i'll be sure to let
> the appropriate lists know and hopefully i can help improve support.
> 
>> 
>> Of course, this begs the question, “What problem are you trying to solve?"
> 
> spending my companies money :)
> 

I can help with that.

> on a more serious note, there are some very low-latency/timing sensitive
> applications we run where a device like this could potentially be useful.
> 
> Having said that it's more of an exploratory email i sent out to get a
> better understanding of the playing field.

OK.

Best,
George