From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@xxxxxxxxx> 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 linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
