From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Duncan Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC][LSF/MM ATTEND] LIO Target Synchronization with sysfs [resend] Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 13:02:41 -0800 Message-ID: <56D4B1F1.6040600@suse.com> References: <56D1CC7C.7050609@suse.com> <1456610092.1750.34.camel@haakon3.risingtidesystems.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:58390 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750819AbcB2VHt (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:07:49 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1456610092.1750.34.camel@haakon3.risingtidesystems.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" Cc: lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-scsi , target-devel , Mike Christie 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