Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/1] cxgb3i: cxgb3 iSCSI initiator

[David Miller]

From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:13:25 -0700

> David Miller wrote:
> > And I even wonder, these days, if you probably get %90 or more of the
> > gain these "optimized" iSCSI connections obtain from things like LRO.
> > And since LRO can be done entirely in software (although stateless
> > HW assistence helps), it is even a NIC agnostic performance improvement.
> 
> Probably depends on whether or not the iSCSI offload solutions are doing 
> zero-copy receive into the filecache?

That's a data placement issue, which also can be solved with
stateless offloading.
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