[openib-general] Re: TSO and IPoIB performance degradation

[Greg Lindahl]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 11:13:24PM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:

> David is right. If you care about performance, you are already using SDP
> or verbs layer for the transport anyway. If I am going to be doing IPoIB,
> it's because eventually I expect the packet might get off the IB network
> and onto some other network and go halfway across the country.

This is going to be a surprise to lots of people who want high-speed
gateways from IB to ethernet -- many clusters connect to fileservers
and other performance-sensitive gizmos that way.

-- greg