From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Varun Prakash Subject: Re: [RFC 13/34] iscsi-target: add new transport type Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 17:22:05 +0530 Message-ID: <20160302115204.GA1755@chelsio.com> References: <767baf547e8db884caddee17a62da36c4023f8f7.1455467089.git.varun@chelsio.com> <20160301144848.GB9738@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Return-path: Received: from stargate.chelsio.com ([12.32.117.8]:17313 "EHLO stargate.chelsio.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752724AbcCBLwt (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2016 06:52:49 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160301144848.GB9738@infradead.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: "target-devel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , "nab@linux-iscsi.org" , "roland@kernel.org" , SWise OGC , Indranil Choudhury , Karen Xie , Hariprasad S On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 08:18:48PM +0530, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > This really looks like an odd interface. I think everyone will > be much happpier in the long run if you do a generic offload interface > instead of special casing each possible driver. Common offload transport type is a better option, but we have to do many changes in iscsi-target to support multiple offload drivers simultaneously.