My project wish-list for the next 12 months

[Kip Macy]

> 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?