On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Quoting James Lentini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] IB/ipoib: S/G and HW checksum support > > > > > > > > On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 12:11:33PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > > > > > I know some people find this approach controversial, > > > > but from my perspective, this is not worse than e.g. > > > > SDP which does not have SW checksums pretty much by design. > > > > > > This would be alot better in my mind of the option was negotiated as > > > part of the CM setup process. Otherwise this becomes a network wide > > > all or nothing kind of feature.. > > > > > > What if the RXing Linux IB side is acting as a forwarder to ethernet? > > > It will forward corrupt packets if this option is set, right? > > > > So this break all gateway devices? > > It won't. The gateway will calculate the checksums. > > > How would packets be routed with this change? > > As usual. A Linux system setup as a router with an IPoIB interface and an Ethernet interface will work if this feature is turned on? _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
