> > > I've been trying to follow this thread, and there has been comments that other > > device owners should speak up. But I'm not sure what LSO would do for an iWARP > > RC QP connection. Can someone give me a quick summary? > > It is unlikely someone would use LSO and an iWarp RC QP together. > > However, an iWarp NIC may want to expose the raw ethernet QP style of > feature, which would probably also want to include the LSO, RSS, > timestamping etc features. > Yes, that makes sense. Chelsio has something like this that is currently out-of-kernel. But there is no LSO/RSS support. And it needs major rewrite to become acceptable for inclusion upstream. But I can review the changes with this in mind. > Most likely iWarp cards already include LSO features in their > netdevice drivers? In that instance I'd say, imagine that same LSO > feature works on a verbs QP and ask if the patch covers the way it > works. > All of Chelsio's cards support LSO features (and all the other important NIC features). I'll think about the proposed API and if it would be sufficient for a RAW_QP type of service. Thanks for the summary Jason! Steve. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
