Re: Add XEN pvSCSI support

Pasi Kärkkäinen
2014-06-27T17:45:25Z

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 04:34:32PM +0200, 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.
>

Great!

I added James Harper to CC, I know he has a port of at least scsiback aswell,
and he has a PVSCSI frontend driver included in the GPLPV Windows Xen PV drivers.

Btw do these patches also include the "latest" PVSCSI fixes/enhancements done in the SuSe/SLES kernel?
(for example the RESERVE/RELEASE support).

-- Pasi

> [PATCH 1/4] Add XEN pvSCSI protocol description
> [PATCH 2/4] Introduce xen-scsifront module
> [PATCH 3/4] Introduce XEN scsiback module
> [PATCH 4/4] add xen pvscsi maintainer
>
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