Quoting r. Shirley Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: enable GSO over IPoIB > > > Shirley> Since linux 2.6.18 supports GSO, I have patched IPoIB to > > Shirley> enable GSO, but haven't tested the performance yet. Has > > Shirley> anyone tried already? > > > > No, I don't think anyone looked at that yet. Could you post your > > patch? What is required? Supporting gather/scatter? > > > > - R. > > Don't need too. GSO only improves sender side performance. It allows large > packet send in ULPs, and segments this packet in interface layer before > driver xmit. The GSO enablement is through ethtool. Since ipoib doesn't > support ethtool, i just simply added a module parameter to set the interface > GSO flag when loading the module.
Any idea what does ethtool do that IPoIB can't support? -- MST _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
