From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
To: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xen.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
JBottomley@parallels.com, target-devel@vger.kernel.org,
konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V2 1/4] Add XEN pvSCSI protocol description
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 09:39:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53D74FCA.1080007@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53D65E09.5020901@citrix.com>
On 07/28/2014 04:28 PM, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 25/07/14 12:37, jgross@suse.com wrote:
>> From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
>>
>> Add the definition of pvSCSI protocol used between the pvSCSI frontend in a
>> XEN domU and the pvSCSI backend in a XEN driver domain (usually Dom0).
>>
>> This header was originally provided by Fujitsu for XEN based on Linux 2.6.18.
>> Changes are:
>> - added comment
>> - adapt to Linux style guide
>> - add support for larger SG-lists by putting them in an own granted page
>> - remove stale definitions
>
> This is a protocol extension and needs to be reviewed separately, and
> the Xen header needs updating as well.
Sure. The review can start right now. Updating the Xen header will be
done as soon as the drivers are accepted in Linux.
> The documentation for this protocol is rather lacking. In particular it
> is missing the connection states.
Regarding documentation: I'll add some.
Regarding the connection states: I'd rather move the description in
blkif.h to xenbus.h than duplicating it in vscsiif.h. What do you think?
Juergen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-29 7:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-25 11:37 [PATCH V2 0/4] Add XEN pvSCSI support jgross
2014-07-25 11:37 ` [PATCH V2 1/4] Add XEN pvSCSI protocol description jgross
2014-07-28 14:28 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2014-07-29 7:39 ` Juergen Gross [this message]
2014-07-25 11:37 ` [PATCH V2 2/4] Introduce xen-scsifront module jgross
2014-07-29 13:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-29 14:57 ` [Xen-devel] " Juergen Gross
2014-07-30 4:53 ` Juergen Gross
2014-08-01 12:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-08-01 13:06 ` Juergen Gross
2014-08-01 13:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-25 11:37 ` [PATCH V2 3/4] Introduce XEN scsiback module jgross
2014-07-26 15:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-28 3:35 ` [Xen-devel] " Jürgen Groß
2014-07-29 12:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-25 11:37 ` [PATCH V2 4/4] add xen pvscsi maintainer jgross
2014-07-25 17:38 ` [PATCH V2 0/4] Add XEN pvSCSI support Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-07-26 7:28 ` Juergen Gross
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