From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vladislav Bolkhovitin Subject: Re: Ang: Re: [Stgt-devel] Re: [Iscsitarget-devel] stgt a new version of iscsi target? Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 18:29:45 +0300 Message-ID: <4399A2E9.6000908@vlnb.net> References: <43972C2D.9060500@cs.wisc.edu> <43987F75.2000301@vlnb.net> <4398850D.8070102@cs.wisc.edu> <1134071290.3259.31.camel@mulgrave> <439892FC.8040900@cs.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from relay03.infobox.ru ([195.208.235.28]:15553 "EHLO relay03.infobox.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964787AbVLIP3l (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Dec 2005 10:29:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: <439892FC.8040900@cs.wisc.edu> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Mike Christie Cc: James Bottomley , johan@capvert.se, iscsitarget-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, mingz@ele.uri.edu, stgt , Robert Whitehead , scst-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig Mike Christie wrote: > James Bottomley wrote: > >> On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 13:10 -0600, Mike Christie wrote: >> >>> cleanup. In the end some of the scsi people liked the idea of >>> throwing the non-read/write command to userspace and to do this we >>> just decided to start over but I have been cutting and pasting your >>> code and cleaning it up as I add more stuff. >> >> >> >> To be honest, I'd like to see all command processing at user level >> (including read/write ... for block devices, it shouldn't be that >> inefficient, since you're merely going to say remap an area from one >> device to another; as long as no data transformation ever occurs, the >> user never touches the data and it all remains in the kernel page >> cache). > > > Ok, Tomo and I briefly talked about this when we saw Jeff's post about > doing block layer drivers in userspace on lkml. I think we were somewhat > prepared for this given some of your other replies. Could you give me a reference on this message, please? > So Vlad and other target guys what do you think? Vlad are you going to > continue to maintain scst as kernel only, or is there some place we can > work together on this on - if your feelings are not hurt too much that > is :) ? From one side, I hate dropping anything in the point where it isn't somehow completed. From other side, I don't have much time to spend on this my hobby. Nobody pays me for that, it's just for fun. Vlad