On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, Curtis Preston wrote:
>> If it's the card I'm thinking about the TCP checksum is already offload >> to hardware. In fact most gigaswift cards support this today with 1 > Gbit >> technology. > > Offloading the checksum is not the same as a full TCP offload. A "true" > TOE card offloads ALL TCP processing, not just the checksum. > >> I think a great deal of tuning would be required to achieve anywhere >> near 10 GB w/ a single TCP stream. > > I think you can tune your heart out and you'll never get anywhere close. > Maybe it's possible with a TOE card, but I haven't heard from anyone > yet. > > _______________________________________________ > Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu > I am still waiting for someone to report > 250 MiB/s with RHEL3/4/5 using 10GBps NICs. Then I'd like to know how they optimized their cards :) Justin. _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
