> Can open-iscsi utilize the multiqueue feature
> (http://lwn.net/Articles/289137/) in order to improve performance? If
> yes, does it require any change in open-iscsi? Did you try to measure
> the performance improvement?

> Erez Zilber wrote:
>> Mike,

>> Can open-iscsi utilize the multiqueue feature
>> (http://lwn.net/Articles/289137/) in order to improve performance? If
>> yes, does it require any change in open-iscsi? Did you try to measure
>> the performance improvement?

> I am not sure about any of the above :) People have been sending
> questions about multi queue (there is tx multiqueue like in the link you
> provided and recv multiqueue too right) and also DCB/DCBX in private and
> at work, and I have only begun to start to try it out.

> My initial quess was that we can take advantage of multiqueue without
> any changes when using software iscsi. I thought the network layer would
> handle things for us like it would any other net traffic that uses the
> sendpage/sendmsg interface.

> For partial offload like with cxgb3i and bnx2i, I am not sure. They both
> use different interfaces into the net driver/card.