> 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. - R. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html