[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Bonding and hw_csum

2008-01-31 Thread Eli Cohen
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 19:35 -0800, Shirley Ma wrote: Hello Tziporet, the hw checksum patch was removed from OFED 1.3 Tziporet Could youp please specify which patch has been removed? I still can see a list of patches under RC3. here they are:

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Bonding and hw_csum

2008-01-31 Thread Koen Segers
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 18:42 +0200, Tziporet Koren wrote: Or Gerlitz wrote: This is interesting report, however, since currently the hw checksum patch in not being submitted to the mainline kernel and it is also about to be removed from ofed 1.3 (Tziporet, can you update on that?), I

Re: [ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Bonding and hw_csum

2008-01-31 Thread Shirley Ma
Hello Eli, ipoib_0030_hw_csum.patch has been removed Would removing this patch cause any errors on applying the rest of patches? If not, I will remove it for our testing as well. Thanks Shirley ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Bonding and hw_csum

2008-01-30 Thread Koen Segers
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 15:34 +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote: Stijn De Smet wrote: I'm trying to get IPOIB bonding to work with the hw_csum enabled. ... When I disable hw_csums, I can start iperf's, pull and replug all cables and the iperf's run uninterrupted. This is interesting report,

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Bonding and hw_csum

2008-01-30 Thread Or Gerlitz
Koen Segers wrote: Do you mean that bonding with hw_csum enabled will never work? no, I meant to say that I am not enough into the details and mechanics of the hw_csum approach/patch and since I understand it is going to be removed, I will not look now on going into this report. Why is

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Bonding and hw_csum

2008-01-30 Thread Koen Segers
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 16:26 +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote: Why is hw_checksum not submitted to the mainline kernel (and thus also removed from ofed)? We definitely want to enable hw_checksum as it gives an enormous bandwidth boost with ipoib. you should ask that the individual/s that are

Re: [ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Bonding and hw_csum

2008-01-30 Thread Or Gerlitz
On 1/30/08, Koen Segers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 16:26 +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote: you should ask that the individual/s that are signed on the patch Is this Michael S. Tsirkin? I don't know where else to find this information. In the Linux model, each change is a patch

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Bonding and hw_csum

2008-01-30 Thread Shirley Ma
Hello Tziporet, the hw checksum patch was removed from OFED 1.3 Tziporet Could youp please specify which patch has been removed? I still can see a list of patches under RC3. here they are: ipoib_0010_Add-high-dma-support-to-ipoib.patch ipoib_0020_Add-s-g-support-for-IPOIB.patch