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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2005-discuss] Summary of 2005 Kernel Summit Proposed Topics
Date: 31 Mar 2005 20:59:54 +0200
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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:59:54 +0200
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On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 07:12:22AM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > It wont work - I can guarantee you that if you add a limit like
> > "we only support 8 iscsi connections max" then users/customers will raise
> > hell because it does not fit their networks.
> 
> What would prevent the iscsi driver from telling the network
> stack to increase the size of the mempools when additional
> iscsi connections are configured ?

I was talking about the hardware limits for early filtering,
not the size of the mempools.

All hardware I found so far has small limits like this.

-Andi