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

Or Gerlitz ogerlitz at voltaire.com
Wed Jan 30 06:26:06 PST 2008


Koen Segers wrote:
> Do you mean that bonding with hw_csum enabled will never work?

no, I meant to say that I am not enough into the details and mechanics 
of the hw_csum approach/patch and since I understand it is going to be 
removed, I will not look now on going into this report.

> 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.

you should ask that the individual/s that are signed on the patch

Or




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