Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:12:54 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/1] cxgb3i: cxgb3 iSCSI initiator | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> 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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