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From: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/1] cxgb3i: cxgb3 iSCSI initiator
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:20:07 -0500
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David Miller wrote:
> From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:09:02 -0700
>
>   
>>  > We turn it off.  If I want to shape or filter one of these iSCSI
>>  > connections can we turn it off?
>>
>> That seems like a reasonable idea to me -- the standard thing to do when
>> a NIC offload conflicts with something else is to turn off the offload
>> and fall back to software.
>>     
>
> But as Herbert says, we can make LRO such that turning it off
> isn't necessary.
>
> Can we shape the iSCSI offload traffic without turning it off?
>   

With Chelsio's product you can do this.  Maybe Divy can provide details?