Re:FreeBSD 13.0 Beta1 Now Available
by toast0 on Sunday February 07, 2021 @03:36PM
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Most of the changes Netflix is making aren't really directly copyable. A lot of it is related to or tied to the virtual memory model, and Linux's model is different.
However, publicizing the ideas and the results is valuable to other operating systems even without the code. If you're building something on Linux (or Windows? or ?) that could benefit from kTLS (including NIC accelerated kTLS), knowing it can work and having a roadmap is great. You would still need to do the plumbing, but you could skip a lot of the design. Being able to look at the code is nice too.
And, if you're willing to try FreeBSD + nginx, you could jump directly to that. If you're deploying something with similar performance characteristics to a CDN box, it's probably a very narrow application, and doesn't need to run on the same stack as the rest of your fleet.
However, publicizing the ideas and the results is valuable to other operating systems even without the code. If you're building something on Linux (or Windows? or ?) that could benefit from kTLS (including NIC accelerated kTLS), knowing it can work and having a roadmap is great. You would still need to do the plumbing, but you could skip a lot of the design. Being able to look at the code is nice too.
And, if you're willing to try FreeBSD + nginx, you could jump directly to that. If you're deploying something with similar performance characteristics to a CDN box, it's probably a very narrow application, and doesn't need to run on the same stack as the rest of your fleet.