Re: Ang: Re: [Stgt-devel] Re: [Iscsitarget-devel] stgt a new version of iscsi target?

[Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@vlnb.net>]

Mike Christie wrote:
> James Bottomley wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 13:10 -0600, Mike Christie wrote:
>>
>>> cleanup. In the end some of the scsi people liked the idea of 
>>> throwing the non-read/write command to userspace and to do this we 
>>> just decided to start over but I have been cutting and pasting your 
>>> code and cleaning it up as I add more stuff.
>>
>>
>>
>> To be honest, I'd like to see all command processing at user level
>> (including read/write ... for block devices, it shouldn't be that
>> inefficient, since you're merely going to say remap an area from one
>> device to another; as long as no data transformation ever occurs, the
>> user never touches the data and it all remains in the kernel page
>> cache).
> 
> 
> Ok, Tomo and I briefly talked about this when we saw Jeff's post about 
> doing block layer drivers in userspace on lkml. I think we were somewhat 
> prepared for this given some of your other replies.

Could you give me a reference on this message, please?

> So Vlad and other target guys what do you think? Vlad are you going to 
> continue to maintain scst as kernel only, or is there some place we can 
> work together on this on - if your feelings are not hurt too much that 
> is :) ?

 From one side, I hate dropping anything in the point where it isn't 
somehow completed. From other side, I don't have much time to spend on 
this my hobby. Nobody pays me for that, it's just for fun.

Vlad