Cool, Sorry, I wasn't aware of that. With iSCSI these cards definitely help, but it there's no stack used for the AOE stuff then cool. Am I right in thinking then, that most of the increase in load is interupt load for I/O on the adapter?
Matt -----Original Message----- From: Gabriel Ambuehl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 12 May 2005 5:40 PM To: Matthew SWINBOURNE Cc: FreeBSD Clustering List Subject: Re: Introduction & RE: Clustering with Freebsd Matthew SWINBOURNE wrote: >Hi All, > >Something to think about along these lines are TCP Off-Loader (TOE) >cards. If you are seriously looking at ATA over ethernet or something >similar on any production scale, then these cards are a life saver. >Reduce the CPU overhead of running storage via TCP/IP to almost >negligable. > > > > > As I understand, this is the whole point of ATA over Ethernet (vs iSCSI): it doesn't actually use TCP/IP, it runs on raw ethernet (and thus isn't routeable but that's probably more of a feature than a bug). _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-cluster To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
