svn commit: r47984 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Sat Jan 9 21:50:55 UTC 2016

Author: bjk
Date: Sat Jan  9 21:50:54 2016
New Revision: 47984
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47984

Log:
  Add entry on Chelsio iSCSI hardware offload from np

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml	Sat Jan  9 21:30:57 2016	(r47983)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml	Sat Jan  9 21:50:54 2016	(r47984)
@@ -1186,4 +1186,63 @@
 
     <sponsor>The FreeBSD Foundation</sponsor>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='kern'>
+    <title>Chelsio iSCSI Offload Driver (Initiator and Target)</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Navdeep</given>
+	  <common>Parhar</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>navdeep at chelsio.com</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/292740">Commit Adding Hardware Acceleration Support</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>A new driver, <tt>cxgbei</tt>, that enables hardware
+	accelerated iSCSI with Chelsio's T5- and T4-based offload-capable
+	cards, has been committed to HEAD.  Both Initiator and Target are
+	supported.  The wire traffic is standard iSCSI (SCSI over TCP as
+	per RFC 3720, etc.) so an Initiator/Target using this driver will
+	interoperate with all other standards-compliant
+	implementations.</p>
+
+      <p>Hardware assistance provided by the T5 and T4 ASICs includes:</p>
+
+      <ul>
+	<li>Complete TCP processing.</li>
+
+	<li>iSCSI PDU identification and extraction from the byte
+	  oriented TCP stream.</li>
+
+	<li>Header and/or data digest generation and
+	  verification.</li>
+
+	<li>Zero copy support for both transmit and receive.</li>
+      </ul>
+    </body>
+
+    <sponsor>
+      Chelsio Communications
+    </sponsor>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>
+	<p>The <tt>cxgbei(4)</tt> man page is missing but will be
+	  committed shortly.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>The driver is in advanced stage QA and will see some
+	  bugfixes and performance enhancements in the very near future.
+	  MFC is possible as soon as the QA cycle completes.</p>
+      </task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
