Is the qla3xxx driver in the mainline?

Is the qla3xxx driver in the mainline?

[Albert Lee]

Hi Ron,

The qla3xxx driver is in the -mm tree.

For the mainline inclusion, Jeff seems ready to accept the driver:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=115334172810775&w=2

Just wondering if the qla3xxx driver is in the mainline yet?

(I am curious to have some performance comparison of
qla3xxx + open iscsi v.s. qla4xxx + on board TOE/iscsi.)

--
albert

Re: Is the qla3xxx driver in the mainline?

[Michael Tokarev]

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.

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).

/mjt

Re: Is the qla3xxx driver in the mainline?

[Albert Lee]

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

RE: Is the qla3xxx driver in the mainline?

[Ron Mercer]

Qla3xxx only supports QLA4022 at this time.  It will soon be patched to
support QLA4032.  There is no plan to add QLA4010 support. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org 
> [mailto:netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Albert Lee
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 8:16 PM
> To: Michael Tokarev
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; Doug Maxey
> Subject: Re: Is the qla3xxx driver in the mainline?
> 
> 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
> 
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