IPoIB-RC and Checksums
"Yaron Haviv" <[email protected]> Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:18:25 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.ipoib |
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In GbE usually the NIC Tx Segmentation (large send) capability comes hand in hand with Checksum offload for greater efficiency (and zero copy) On UD we decided not to address checksum offloading, since we cannot guarantee that the node will not forward an un-checked packet Where as in RC we can have examples of devices that can guarantee checksum One example is an IB-IP gateway that always checksum outgoing and incoming packets, and can act as a remote IP NIC to the Host I suggest we include a checksum option in the CM Exchange Where a node can request that its peer will not checksum the packet for it And also signal that he sends packets that are already checked That can help improve performance of IPoIB RC P.S. another note, we discussed in IETF was that we may want to mention/suggest (not mandate) use of SRQ for IPoIB-RC in order to preserve memory Yaron