[ewg] IPoIB to Ethernet routing performance

[Ali Ayoub]

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Christoph Lameter <cl at linux.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, sebastien dugue wrote:
>
>> > The Mellanox BridgeX looks a better hardware solution with 12x 10Ge
>> > ports but when I tested this they could only provide vNIC
>> > functionality and would not commit to adding IPoIB gateway on their
>> > roadmap.
>>
>>   Right, we did some evaluation on it and this was really a show stopper.
>
> Did the same thing here came to the same conclusions.

May I ask why do you need IPoIB when you have EoIB (vNic driver)?
Why it's a show stopper?