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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:51:29 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: rdreier@...co.com Cc: jgarzik@...ox.com, swise@...ngridcomputing.com, divy@...lsio.com, kxie@...lsio.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, open-iscsi@...glegroups.com, michaelc@...wisc.edu, daisyc@...ibm.com, wenxiong@...ibm.com, bhua@...ibm.com, dm@...lsio.com, leedom@...lsio.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/1] cxgb3i: cxgb3 iSCSI initiator From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:37:59 -0700 > > But as Herbert says, we can make LRO such that turning it off > > isn't necessary. > > > > Can we shape the iSCSI offload traffic without turning it off? > > Sure... the same way we can ask the HW vendors to keep old headers > around when aggregating for LRO, we can ask HW vendors for hooks for > shaping iSCSI traffic. And the Chelsio TCP speed record seems to show > that they already have pretty sophisticated queueing/shaping in their > current HW. You don't get it, you can't add the entire netfilter and qdisc stack into the silly firmware. And we can't fix bugs there either. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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