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Using the new bridges of FreeBSD 15

85 pointsby vermadenyesterday at 10:42 PM22 commentsview on HN

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j16sdiztoday at 2:58 AM

Why sudden surge of FreeBSD-related posts?

Did anything special or new happened on FreeBSD land?

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ggmyesterday at 11:43 PM

When this settles down, I look forward to all of jail/iojail, Sylve, Bastille, Bhyve documenting this in a mutually consistent manner. As it stands, I have managed to completely knot my brain over the abstractions, what is happening. It's me, not the systems, but I think there is a little bit of "meh, I understand it, so it must be obvious to anyone smart" going on, and alas, I am not smart, and I get confused easily.

I'm in bastille atm, but have been in all of them and TrueNAS core. and libvirt over on the other unix.

shashasha2yesterday at 11:17 PM

Bhyve bridges are inefficient: every packet traverses NIC → CPU → bridge → VM, adding unnecessary copies that kill throughput. Switching to SR-IOV eliminated that overhead and I saturated the 10 GbE link.

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waynesonfiretoday at 12:47 AM

> -tso4 -tso6 -vlanhwfilter -vlanmtu -vlanhwtso -vlanhwtag -vlanhwcsum -lro

Whys the author disabling tso and lro? Whats the motivation?

I'm not familiar with the other flags.

bzmrgonztoday at 1:16 AM

I cor one welcome and applaud any progress on the bsd front,and this seems to be huge.