Re: [Xen-devel] Add XEN pvSCSI support

["Jürgen Groß" <jgross@suse.com>]

Sorry, please ignore.

One wrong patch slipped in, while one is missing.

Will resend with correct patches.


Juergen

On 08/08/2014 09:43 AM, jgross@suse.com wrote:
> This series adds XEN pvSCSI support. With pvSCSI it is possible to use physical
> SCSI devices from a XEN domain.
>
> The support consists of a backend in the privileged Domain-0 doing the real
> I/O and a frontend in the unprivileged domU passing I/O-requests to the backend.
>
> The code is taken (and adapted) from the original pvSCSI implementation done
> for Linux 2.6 in 2008 by Fujitsu.
>
> [PATCH V2 1/4] Add XEN pvSCSI protocol description
> [PATCH V2 2/4] Introduce xen-scsifront module
> [PATCH V2 3/4] Introduce XEN scsiback module
> [PATCH V2 4/4] add xen pvscsi maintainer
>
> Changes in V4:
> - Re-add define for VSCSIIF_ACT_SCSI_SG_PRESET to vscsiif.h to indicate this
>    action value should not be used in future enhancements
>
> Changes in V3:
> - added some comments to the protocol header file
> - removed the CDB emulation from xen-scsiback, handled by core target
>    infrastructure
> - several changes in xen-scsifront after comments from Christoph Hellwig
>
> Changes in V2:
> - use core target infrastructure by backend instead of pure SCSI passthrough
> - add support for larger SG lists by putting them in grant page(s)
> - add command abort capability
>
>
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