From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Albert Lee Subject: Re: Is the qla3xxx driver in the mainline? Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:16:04 +0800 Message-ID: <44C82FF4.4010401@tw.ibm.com> References: <44C6E546.8030502@tw.ibm.com> <44C75E06.1060402@tls.msk.ru> Reply-To: albertl@mail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Doug Maxey Return-path: Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.149]:51179 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751250AbWG0DQ0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:16:26 -0400 Received: from westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.11]) by e31.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k6R3GO47005030 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:16:24 -0400 Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (d03av03.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.169]) by westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.6/NCO/VER7.0) with ESMTP id k6R3GOuj305540 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:16:24 -0600 Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k6R3GNF9015702 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:16:23 -0600 To: Michael Tokarev In-Reply-To: <44C75E06.1060402@tls.msk.ru> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Michael Tokarev wrote: > Albert Lee wrote: > [] > >>(I am curious to have some performance comparison of >>qla3xxx + open iscsi v.s. qla4xxx + on board TOE/iscsi.) > > > On wich card? I've been told that IPS4010 for example > isn't supported by qla3xxx. I've borrowed an ISP4022 based adapter, the qla3xxx should be supported. > > BTW, I found qla4xxx (on IPS4010) performs noticeable > worse than open-iscsi stack on top of tigon (non-jumbo- > frames-capable) GigE NIC (on an eserver xSeries 346 > machine). > Thanks for the info. With qla3xxx, we can actually use the Ethernet interface of the qla4022 instead of the bcm57xx tg3. So, we could compare the performance of the on-board TOE/iscsi with open-iscsi better. -- albert