From: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:20:07 -0500

quoted text
> David Miller wrote:
> > From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
> > Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:09:02 -0700
> >
> >   
> >>  > We turn it off.  If I want to shape or filter one of these iSCSI
> >>  > connections can we turn it off?
> >>
> >> That seems like a reasonable idea to me -- the standard thing to do when
> >> a NIC offload conflicts with something else is to turn off the offload
> >> and fall back to software.
> >>     
> >
> > But as Herbert says, we can make LRO such that turning it off
> > isn't necessary.
> >
> > Can we shape the iSCSI offload traffic without turning it off?
> >   
> 
> With Chelsio's product you can do this.  Maybe Divy can provide details?

When I say shape I mean apply any packet scheduler, any netfilter
module, and any other feature we support.
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