From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: JBottomley@parallels.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
xen-devel@lists.xen.org, target-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Introduce XEN scsiback module
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 10:57:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53BFA70E.5040203@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140628180953.GA10820@infradead.org>
On 06/28/2014 08:09 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 04:34:35PM +0200, jgross@suse.com wrote:
>> From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
>>
>> Introduces the XEN pvSCSI backend. With pvSCSI it is possible for a XEN domU
>> to issue SCSI commands to a SCSI LUN assigned to that domU. The SCSI commands
>> are passed to the pvSCSI backend in a driver domain (usually Dom0) which is
>> owner of the physical device. This allows e.g. to use SCSI tape drives in a
>> XEN domU.
>
> This should be written against the generic target core infrastructure
> in drivers/target, instead of introducing another simplistic pass
> through only SCSI target.
> .
>
Just to be sure: you mean something like a combined version of
tcm_vhost and virtio_scsi?
Juergen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-11 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-27 14:34 Add XEN pvSCSI support jgross
2014-06-27 14:34 ` [PATCH 1/4] Add XEN pvSCSI protocol description jgross
2014-06-27 17:11 ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-06-30 8:26 ` Juergen Gross
2014-06-30 11:02 ` Jan Beulich
2014-06-30 11:18 ` Juergen Gross
2014-06-30 11:29 ` Jan Beulich
2014-06-27 14:34 ` [PATCH 2/4] Introduce xen-scsifront module jgross
2014-06-30 13:35 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2014-06-30 13:51 ` Juergen Gross
2014-06-27 14:34 ` [PATCH 3/4] Introduce XEN scsiback module jgross
2014-06-28 18:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-11 8:57 ` Juergen Gross [this message]
2014-07-11 9:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-06-27 14:34 ` [PATCH 4/4] add xen pvscsi maintainer jgross
2014-06-27 17:13 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-06-27 17:45 ` Add XEN pvSCSI support Pasi Kärkkäinen
2014-06-27 17:51 ` [Xen-devel] " Pasi Kärkkäinen
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