Re: [PATCH-v2 11/17] target/iblock: Add blk_integrity + BIP passthrough support

From: Martin K. Petersen
Date: Tue Jan 21 2014 - 20:54:37 EST


>>>>> "nab" == Nicholas A Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> Please remind me why we ignore IP-CSUM guard type again? MKP, will
>> this be irrelevant for the initiator as well? if so, I don't see a
>> reason to expose this in RDMA verbs.

nab> My understanding is that this was used for pre-production
nab> prototyping, and is not supported by any real backend storage
nab> hardware.

We are shipping several products with support for the IP checksum. But
it's between application and initiator only. From there on it's all T10
CRC as required by the spec.

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Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
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