The Commons Clause really isn't as important as we think it is [LWN.net]

The Commons Clause really isn't as important as we think it is

Posted Aug 23, 2018 22:38 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: The Commons Clause really isn't as important as we think it is by nilsmeyer
Parent article: Redis modules and the Commons Clause

As an Amazon employee who worked a fair bit with the ENA source code, what are the non-NIH-ed alternatives to it?

I'm seriously interested.

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Posted Aug 25, 2018 5:26 UTC (Sat) by wmf (guest, #33791) [Link] (1 responses)

Mellanox and Chelsio NICs have very similar functionality to the ENA, although I can imagine several legitimate reasons why AWS might have chosen to develop their own NIC.

AWS NIH

Posted Aug 25, 2018 7:25 UTC (Sat) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

> Mellanox and Chelsio NICs have very similar functionality to the ENA, although I can imagine several legitimate reasons why AWS might have chosen to develop their own NIC.
ENAs have a lot of "secret sauce" inside. But to be fair, lots of larger instances just use a regular Intel network card using PCI pass-through.