From: "Pasi Kärkkäinen" <pasik@iki.fi>
To: jgross@suse.com
Cc: James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, JBottomley@parallels.com,
xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Add XEN pvSCSI support
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 20:51:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140627175118.GX18930@reaktio.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140627174525.GW18930@reaktio.net>
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 08:45:25PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> 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).
>
Never mind, I noticed that RESERVE/RELEASE are included in the xen-scsiback driver patch.
-- Pasi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-27 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-27 14:34 Add XEN pvSCSI support jgross
2014-06-27 14:34 ` [PATCH 1/4] Add XEN pvSCSI protocol description jgross
2014-06-27 17:11 ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-06-30 8:26 ` Juergen Gross
2014-06-30 11:02 ` Jan Beulich
2014-06-30 11:18 ` Juergen Gross
2014-06-30 11:29 ` Jan Beulich
2014-06-27 14:34 ` [PATCH 2/4] Introduce xen-scsifront module jgross
2014-06-30 13:35 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2014-06-30 13:51 ` Juergen Gross
2014-06-27 14:34 ` [PATCH 3/4] Introduce XEN scsiback module jgross
2014-06-28 18:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-11 8:57 ` Juergen Gross
2014-07-11 9:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-06-27 14:34 ` [PATCH 4/4] add xen pvscsi maintainer jgross
2014-06-27 17:13 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-06-27 17:45 ` Add XEN pvSCSI support Pasi Kärkkäinen
2014-06-27 17:51 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen [this message]
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2014-08-08 7:43 jgross
2014-08-08 7:47 ` [Xen-devel] " Jürgen Groß
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