[ewg] IPoIB to Ethernet routing performance

Jabe jabe.chapman at shiftmail.org
Mon Dec 13 08:02:20 PST 2010


On 12/06/2010 10:27 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 09:47:42PM +0100, Jabe wrote:
>    
>> Technologies MT25204 [InfiniHost III Lx HCA]; and dual E5430 xeon
>> (not nehalem).
>>      
> Newer Mellanox cards have most of the offloads you see for ethernet so
> they get better performance. Plus>  Nehalem is just better at TCP in
> the first place..
>    

Very interesting

Do you know if new Qlogic IB cards like QLE7340 also have such offloads?

In general which brand would you recommend for IB and for IPoIB?

Thank you



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