From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>
Cc: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>,
"jbeulich@suse.com" <jbeulich@suse.com>,
"xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] xen-block: introduces extra request to pass-through SCSI commands
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 13:25:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56D82D27.9010103@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22232.10238.590205.80971@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
On 03/03/16 13:03, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Paul Durrant writes ("RE: [RFC PATCH] xen-block: introduces extra request to pass-through SCSI commands"):
>> Actually, that's quite desirable. The existing driver is actually a
>> SCSI HBA driver (because that's all you can write is you use thr
>> Windows STORPORT wrapper... which you need to if you want to pass
>> WHQL) so making it use a PV scsi protocol would probably make it
>> smaller since all the scsi <-> blkif translation code could be
>> ripped out and all the stuff to synthesize INQUIRY responses based
>> on vbd data in xenstore could go away too.
>
> Do non-Linux hosts have something like LIO ?
Are there any pvSCSI backends other than the one in Linux?
Juergen
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-29 3:37 [RFC PATCH] xen-block: introduces extra request to pass-through SCSI commands Bob Liu
2016-02-29 8:12 ` Juergen Gross
2016-02-29 15:05 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-02-29 15:34 ` Juergen Gross
2016-02-29 9:13 ` Paul Durrant
2016-02-29 14:55 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-02-29 15:28 ` Paul Durrant
2016-02-29 15:35 ` Roger Pau Monné
2016-02-29 16:48 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-02-29 16:56 ` Paul Durrant
2016-02-29 16:14 ` Ian Jackson
2016-02-29 16:29 ` Ian Jackson
2016-02-29 23:45 ` Bob Liu
2016-02-29 23:45 ` Bob Liu
2016-03-01 18:08 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-02 7:39 ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-02 7:57 ` Bob Liu
2016-03-02 11:40 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-02 11:46 ` Paul Durrant
2016-03-02 12:00 ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-02 12:28 ` Bob Liu
2016-03-02 14:44 ` Ian Jackson
[not found] ` <20160302172257.GC27821@char.us.oracle.com>
2016-03-03 11:54 ` Paul Durrant
2016-03-03 12:03 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-03 12:25 ` Juergen Gross [this message]
2016-03-03 14:07 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-03 14:19 ` Paul Durrant
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