From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Christie Subject: Re: Land iscsi iser performance patches to upstream Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:32:27 -0600 Message-ID: <4D224E7B.5040704@cs.wisc.edu> References: <20101216050257.GC1263@parisc-linux.org> <4D09AE7C.6070708@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sabe.cs.wisc.edu ([128.105.6.20]:57217 "EHLO sabe.cs.wisc.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750895Ab1ACWcZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2011 17:32:25 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4D09AE7C.6070708@oracle.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Zhiqi Tao Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Or Gerlitz On 12/16/2010 12:15 AM, Zhiqi Tao wrote: > Hi, > > Could anyone advise if there is any plan to push these patches to land > the upstream? > > Patch 1/3 > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org/msg14533.html > Patch 2/3 > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org/msg14381.html > Patch 3/3 > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org/msg14398.html > > > In particular patch 2 and 3 are matching the iscsi_tcp.c values and have > improved the performance that we got. It will be beneficial to include > them into the vanilla kernel. > Hey Or, These patches look ok except for #1. Did you guys have some weird restrictions? Or did you have some weird restrictions but the iser driver handles it (see iser_data_buf_aligned_len related code). I think instead of 0 you want to set the dma alignment to 4K?