Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] 10GB network + perf questions etc

2007-08-26 19:29:45
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 10GB network + perf questions etc
From: "Curtis Preston" <cpreston AT glasshouse DOT com>
To: "Peter Marelas" <peter_marelas AT symantec DOT com>, "Dominik Pietrzykowski" <dominik_pietrzykowski AT toll.com DOT au>, <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:06:06 -0400
>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.

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