From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4rkk=E4inen?= Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Add XEN pvSCSI support Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 20:51:18 +0300 Message-ID: <20140627175118.GX18930@reaktio.net> References: <1403879676-25431-1-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com> <20140627174525.GW18930@reaktio.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from emh01.mail.saunalahti.fi ([62.142.5.107]:38196 "EHLO emh01.mail.saunalahti.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751999AbaF0RvX (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2014 13:51:23 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140627174525.GW18930@reaktio.net> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: jgross@suse.com Cc: James Harper , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, JBottomley@parallels.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 08:45:25PM +0300, Pasi K=E4rkk=E4inen 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. > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > The code is taken (and adapted) from the original pvSCSI implementa= tion done > > for Linux 2.6 in 2008 by Fujitsu. > >=20 >=20 > Great!=20 >=20 > 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. >=20 > Btw do these patches also include the "latest" PVSCSI fixes/enhanceme= nts done in the SuSe/SLES kernel? > (for example the RESERVE/RELEASE support). >=20 Never mind, I noticed that RESERVE/RELEASE are included in the xen-scsi= back driver patch. -- Pasi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html