From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Christie Subject: Re: [PATCH] iscsi transport endpoint calls Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 12:01:19 -0500 Message-ID: <444D045F.2070901@cs.wisc.edu> References: <444CE6AE.8020502@voltaire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:8373 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750742AbWDXRBV (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Apr 2006 13:01:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <444CE6AE.8020502@voltaire.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Or Gerlitz Cc: James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, hch@lst.de, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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 >> Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz > > 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.