From 82d0d32c3284fa9c7145608bf06c68a39a02be83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Kaduk Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 23:44:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add entry on the Elastic Network Adapter from Jakub Palider --- .../news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml | 68 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 68 insertions(+) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml index 10ac40ecf7..85bcb25067 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml @@ -793,4 +793,72 @@ Submit remaining fixes and drivers. + + + &os; Driver for the Annapurna Labs ENA + + + + + Jan + Medala + + jan@semihalf.com + + + + + Jakub + Palider + + jpa@semihalf.com + + + + + Amazon AWS Documentation of the ENA + + + +

The Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) is a 25G SmartNIC developed by + Annapurna Labs based on a custom ARMv8 chip. This is a + high-performance networking card that is available to AWS virtual + machines. It introduces enhancements in network utilization + scalability on EC2 machines running various operating systems, in + particular &os;.

+ +

The goal of &os; enablement is to provide top performance and a + wide range of monitoring and management features such as:

+ + + +

The current state offers stable driver operation with good + performance on machines running &os; directly on the hardware.

+ + + + Annapurna Labs — an Amazon company + + + + Optimize performance for virtualized environments. + + Prepare for submitting the driver as a Phabricator + review. + +