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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/1] cxgb3i: cxgb3 iSCSI initiator
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:13:25 -0700
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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?

rick jones