Re: [PATCH] iscsi transport endpoint calls

[Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>]

Or Gerlitz wrote:
> Or Gerlitz wrote:
>> This patch allows for iscsi transport to have its connection being
>> established and disconnected from the kernel.
>>
>> The patch is the sixth iscsi update to 2.6.18 and is needed by iser,
>> it is relative to the five iscsi patches sent by Mike Christie.
>>
>> Doing this is a must for iSER and some of the iscsi offloads but on the
>> other hand not needed for TCP where a socket (fd) is connected in user
>> space
>> and then sent down to the kernel where struct sock is retrieved from
>> the fd.
>>
>> The iscsi user space implementation was enhanced to have a user space
>> transport where TCP is doing things directly from user space and iSER
>> is using the extension to the iscsi u/k IPC ABI to do things in the
>> kernel.
>>
>> Acked-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
>> Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@voltaire.com>
> 
> James, Christoph:
> 
> As the iscsi patches sent by Mike Christie were accepted and merged into
> the scsi-misc git tree, this patch is the remaining iscsi related piece
> on which iser is dependent and is not yet accepted for upstream push.
> 
> We really need your feedback on the patch, which allowed us to remove
> the pseudo socket from iser (Christoph is aware to the details).
> 

I was going to send this patch with a update I was making (trying to
send them by the end of the week). I can resend this with my other stuff
if it is ok with everyone.