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Message-ID: <48A0C927.8020501@opengridcomputing.com>
Date:	Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:20:07 -0500
From:	Steve Wise <swise@...ngridcomputing.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	rdreier@...co.com, jgarzik@...ox.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

David Miller wrote:
> From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:09:02 -0700
>
>   
>>  > We turn it off.  If I want to shape or filter one of these iSCSI
>>  > connections can we turn it off?
>>
>> That seems like a reasonable idea to me -- the standard thing to do when
>> a NIC offload conflicts with something else is to turn off the offload
>> and fall back to software.
>>     
>
> 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?
>   

With Chelsio's product you can do this.  Maybe Divy can provide details?



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