AWS NIH
AWS NIH
Posted Aug 25, 2018 5:26 UTC (Sat) by wmf (guest, #33791)In reply to: The Commons Clause really isn't as important as we think it is by Cyberax
Parent article: Redis modules and the Commons Clause
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.
Posted Aug 25, 2018 7:25 UTC (Sat)
by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
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> 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.