From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 22:43:14 +0000 Message-ID: <20080204224314.113afe7b@core> References: <1201639331.3069.58.camel@localhost.localdomain> <47A05CBD.5050803@vlnb.net> <47A7049A.9000105@vlnb.net> <1202139015.3096.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <47A73C86.3060604@vlnb.net> <1202144767.3096.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> <47A7488B.4080000@vlnb.net> <1202145901.3096.49.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1202151989.11265.576.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:48461 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755610AbYBDWt1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:49:27 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" , James Bottomley , Vladislav Bolkhovitin , Bart Van Assche , Andrew Morton , FUJITA Tomonori , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, scst-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Mike Christie > better. So for example, I personally suspect that ATA-over-ethernet is way > better than some crazy SCSI-over-TCP crap, but I'm biased for simple and > low-level, and against those crazy SCSI people to begin with. Current ATAoE isn't. It can't support NCQ. A variant that did NCQ and IP would probably trash iSCSI for latency if nothing else. Alan