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

[David Miller]

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.
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