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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/1] cxgb3i: cxgb3 iSCSI initiator
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:09:02 -0700
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 > 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.

 - R.