[ofw] [ipoib] send chksum offload

[Tzachi Dar]

Another scenario in which this is needed is for clusters with ipoib
network only.

Some customers are ready to check the end to end crc feature of IB and
are ready to run without checksum at all.

Thanks
Tzachi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Naslednikov 
> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 9:44 AM
> To: Alex Estrin; Tzachi Dar
> Cc: ofw at lists.openfabrics.org
> Subject: RE: [ofw] [ipoib] send chksum offload 
> 
> There was a long discussion about this issue before.
> To summarize, we need this value when we want check the 
> maximum available bandwidth of the HCA, regardless if it 
> supports checkum offloading.
> Of course, this value is useless for the latest series of 
> HCAs - checksum support is already inside 
> 
> Thanks,
> XaleX
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ofw-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org 
> [mailto:ofw-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Alex Estrin
> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 7:30 PM
> To: ofw at lists.openfabrics.org
> Subject: [ofw] [ipoib] send chksum offload 
> 
> 
> 'Bypass' value for 'Send Checksum Offload' parameter is 
> meaningless and should be removed.
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex
>  
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