[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 2 of 2] IB/mlx4: shrinking WQE

[Jack Morgenstein]

On Friday 08 February 2008 23:30, Roland Dreier wrote:
> Although I'm not convinced this is really that useful; the only use I
> see for it would be speeding up IPoIB with S/G and checksum offload,
> when we have to size send WQEs for the worst case but most packets are
> smaller.  But Eli's latest work seems to use selective signaling for
> the send queue, so this change doesn't actually help.
> 
You're right regarding Eli's change, but this is only for UD. The feature
is useful for IPoIB-connected mode.

Its also useful for SDP, and possibly for RDS.

- Jack