[LSF/MM TOPIC][LSF/MM ATTEND] LIO Target Synchronization with sysfs [resend]

[LSF/MM TOPIC][LSF/MM ATTEND] LIO Target Synchronization with sysfs [resend]

[Lee Duncan]

[Apologies for the resend.]

I would like to attend LSF/MM this year. I would like to discuss
problems I've had dealing with LIO targets and their inherent
asynchronicity in sysfs. I believe that with judicious use of kernel
events we can help user space handle target changes more cleanly.

As for other topics:

As one of the maintainers of LIO at SUSE, I'd dearly love to see our
iSCSI targets merged.

I also would love to see multipath work in a sane way, and *with* the
SCSI subsystem, not on top of it, so I'd like to join that discussion.
-- 
Lee Duncan

Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC][LSF/MM ATTEND] LIO Target Synchronization with sysfs [resend]

[Nicholas A. Bellinger]

On Sat, 2016-02-27 at 08:19 -0800, Lee Duncan wrote:
> [Apologies for the resend.]
> 
> I would like to attend LSF/MM this year. I would like to discuss
> problems I've had dealing with LIO targets and their inherent
> asynchronicity in sysfs. I believe that with judicious use of kernel
> events we can help user space handle target changes more cleanly.
> 

I assume you mean configfs, and not sysfs.  ;)

> As for other topics:
> 
> As one of the maintainers of LIO at SUSE, I'd dearly love to see our
> iSCSI targets merged.
> 

You're talking about Mike's (CC'ed) original target_core_rbd.c driver,
right..?

He's been working on porting the PR related changes to a generic
interface that can be consumed by multiple backend using
target_core_iblock.c.

Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC][LSF/MM ATTEND] LIO Target Synchronization with sysfs [resend]

[Lee Duncan]

On 02/27/2016 01:54 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> On Sat, 2016-02-27 at 08:19 -0800, Lee Duncan wrote:
>> [Apologies for the resend.]
>>
>> I would like to attend LSF/MM this year. I would like to discuss
>> problems I've had dealing with LIO targets and their inherent
>> asynchronicity in sysfs. I believe that with judicious use of kernel
>> events we can help user space handle target changes more cleanly.
>>
> 
> I assume you mean configfs, and not sysfs.  ;)

Apologies. Yes.

> 
>> As for other topics:
>>
>> As one of the maintainers of LIO at SUSE, I'd dearly love to see our
>> iSCSI targets merged.
>>
> 
> You're talking about Mike's (CC'ed) original target_core_rbd.c driver,
> right..?
> 
> He's been working on porting the PR related changes to a generic
> interface that can be consumed by multiple backend using
> target_core_iblock.c.
> 

Actually, no. I'm aware of that work because one of the groups I'm in is
working in that area. And that is of interest to me to.

But I meant the scst/lio merge, one of the proposed LSF/MM topics.
-- 
Lee Duncan