[ofa-general] RE: QoS for iSER

[Yevgeny Kliteynik]

Sean Hefty wrote:
>>> And as you've mentioned, some rules may overlap. For instance,
>>> if the rule for all the RDS traffic will appear before the iSER
>>> rule, then iSER requests will be caught by the RDS rule.
>> That doesn't sound so good but I don't see a good alternative here other
>> than for this case to put the iSER rule first. The other fallback is the
>> more detailed configuration but RDS falls into the generic range
>> category which is problematic in terms of this (and can't be
>> differentiated by ServiceID unlike the other ULPs).
> 
> I'm not overly familiar with the details of RDS, but event if the active side
> uses a dynamic service ID, I would expect the passive side to use something well
> known.

Couldn't agree more.
That's why I think that although there are cases where this simplified
way of defining SLs per ULP plus target TCP port won't be useful, in
many cases it would actually make the administrator's life easier.

-- Yevgeny

> - Sean
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