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Date:      Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:05:25 -0800 (PST)
From:      Kip Macy <kmacy@netapp.com>
To:        "Scott M. Ferris" <sferris@gmail.com>
Cc:        Peter Blok <pblok@bsd4all.org>
Subject:   Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0412141704150.1921-100000@siml3.eng.netapp.com>
In-Reply-To: <1eea89cd041214114766fd34dc@mail.gmail.com>

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> Hardware-based iSCSI HBAs solve this by having their own memory and
> TCP stack separate from the OS.  Software-only iSCSI initiators such
> as linux-iscsi usually just hope it doesn't happen, and that's why I
> don't usually recommend software-only iSCSI initiators to anyone.

How is that any better than having the SW iscsi initiator pre-allocate a pool of 
memory for its use at startup?











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