* Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Making sure soft SCSI Targets are Valid
2013-01-29 19:13 [LSF/MM TOPIC] Making sure soft SCSI Targets are Valid Lee Duncan
@ 2013-02-05 5:38 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2013-02-25 17:19 ` ronnie sahlberg
2013-03-10 23:27 ` ronnie sahlberg
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Nicholas A. Bellinger @ 2013-02-05 5:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Lee Duncan; +Cc: lsf-pc, linux-scsi, ronnie sahlberg
On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 11:13 -0800, Lee Duncan wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I'm not sure if there is much interest in this, but I've recently
> realized that there is no good free software to validate iSCSI targets,
> not to mention FCOE targets, IB soft targets, etc. There's just no way
> to know if any change you make is "legal" short of learning to speak
> SCSI geek spec (or waiting to see what fails when you make a subtle change).
>
> So I have been working with the (user-space) libiscsi creator and
> maintainer, Ronnie Sahlberg, to enhance his test suite. But this only
> addresses iSCSI targets. Some of his tests have already shown problems
> like kernel panics when an incorrect bit is injected, showing the need
> for such testing.
>
> It occurs to me it would be most valuable if we had more generic SCSI
> tests, not even limited to soft targets, available to developers and
> manufacturers. How best to support such tests with our SCSI layer, and
> what tests are needed now and in the future may be a good topic for
> discussion.
+1.
Please count me in for this discussion. There are a number of CDB level
tests that need to be added to scsi-testsuite.git, and I'd really love
to get those interested working on a single codebase for SCSI target
verification.
--nab
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* [LSF/MM TOPIC] Making sure soft SCSI Targets are Valid
2013-01-29 19:13 [LSF/MM TOPIC] Making sure soft SCSI Targets are Valid Lee Duncan
2013-02-05 5:38 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
@ 2013-02-25 17:19 ` ronnie sahlberg
2013-03-10 23:27 ` ronnie sahlberg
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: ronnie sahlberg @ 2013-02-25 17:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: lsf-pc; +Cc: Lee Duncan, linux-scsi
Hi,
This is my attend request to to co-present a paper with Lee Duncan.
regards
ronnie sahlberg
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I'm not sure if there is much interest in this, but I've recently
> realized that there is no good free software to validate iSCSI targets,
> not to mention FCOE targets, IB soft targets, etc. There's just no way
> to know if any change you make is "legal" short of learning to speak
> SCSI geek spec (or waiting to see what fails when you make a subtle change).
>
> So I have been working with the (user-space) libiscsi creator and
> maintainer, Ronnie Sahlberg, to enhance his test suite. But this only
> addresses iSCSI targets. Some of his tests have already shown problems
> like kernel panics when an incorrect bit is injected, showing the need
> for such testing.
>
> It occurs to me it would be most valuable if we had more generic SCSI
> tests, not even limited to soft targets, available to developers and
> manufacturers. How best to support such tests with our SCSI layer, and
> what tests are needed now and in the future may be a good topic for
> discussion.
> --
> Lee Duncan
> SUSE Labs
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* [LSF/MM TOPIC] Making sure soft SCSI Targets are Valid
2013-01-29 19:13 [LSF/MM TOPIC] Making sure soft SCSI Targets are Valid Lee Duncan
2013-02-05 5:38 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2013-02-25 17:19 ` ronnie sahlberg
@ 2013-03-10 23:27 ` ronnie sahlberg
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: ronnie sahlberg @ 2013-03-10 23:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Lee Duncan; +Cc: lsf-pc, linux-scsi
Hi All
I would like to attend LSF/MM and talk with people about scsi and iscsi testing.
I am the author/maintainer for libiscsi which is userspace initiator
used primarily by KVM/QEMU.
This package also includes a pretty big test suite for mainly SCSI but
also a lot of interesting iSCSI tests.
As someone hacking on a testsuite, I would like to meet with initiator
and target implementors and talk
about the existing test suites, and how we can work together from here.
What can i bring to FSF/MM?
========================
I like SCSI and I like writing tests.
I have a big existing testsuite that I think at least some of you can
benefit from.
I would like to talk to people on how to make the test suite even better.
Can we work out a platform where we can build even better and more
comprehensive test suites ?
etc.
regards
ronnie sahlberg
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I'm not sure if there is much interest in this, but I've recently
> realized that there is no good free software to validate iSCSI targets,
> not to mention FCOE targets, IB soft targets, etc. There's just no way
> to know if any change you make is "legal" short of learning to speak
> SCSI geek spec (or waiting to see what fails when you make a subtle change).
>
> So I have been working with the (user-space) libiscsi creator and
> maintainer, Ronnie Sahlberg, to enhance his test suite. But this only
> addresses iSCSI targets. Some of his tests have already shown problems
> like kernel panics when an incorrect bit is injected, showing the need
> for such testing.
>
> It occurs to me it would be most valuable if we had more generic SCSI
> tests, not even limited to soft targets, available to developers and
> manufacturers. How best to support such tests with our SCSI layer, and
> what tests are needed now and in the future may be a good topic for
> discussion.
> --
> Lee Duncan
> SUSE Labs
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