[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Bonding and hw_csum

[Koen Segers]

On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 15:34 +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> Stijn De Smet wrote:
> > I'm trying to get IPOIB bonding to work with the hw_csum enabled. 
> ...
> > When I disable hw_csums, I can start iperf's, pull and replug all cables
> > and the iperf's run uninterrupted.
> 
> This is interesting report, however, since currently the hw checksum 
> patch in not being submitted to the mainline kernel and it is also about 
> to be removed from ofed 1.3 (Tziporet, can you update on that?), I am 
> not going to look into that.

Do you mean that bonding with hw_csum enabled will never work?

Why is hw_checksum not submitted to the mainline kernel (and thus also
removed from ofed)? We definitely want to enable hw_checksum as it gives
an enormous bandwidth boost with ipoib.

Koen.

> 
> Or.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> general mailing list
> general at lists.openfabrics.org
> http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general
> 
> To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
*** Disclaimer ***

Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep
Auguste Reyerslaan 52, 1043 Brussel

nv van publiek recht
BTW BE 0244.142.664
RPR Brussel
http://www.vrt.be/disclaimer