From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen_Gro=DF?= Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Add XEN pvSCSI support Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 09:47:28 +0200 Message-ID: <53E48090.1090103@suse.com> References: <1407483840-31436-1-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:47603 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753144AbaHHHrb (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2014 03:47:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1407483840-31436-1-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, target-devel@vger.kernel.org, JBottomley@parallels.com, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, hch@infradead.org, david.vrabel@citrix.com, JBeulich@suse.com Sorry, please ignore. One wrong patch slipped in, while one is missing. Will resend with correct patches. Juergen On 08/08/2014 09:43 AM, jgross@suse.com wrote: > This series adds XEN pvSCSI support. With pvSCSI it is possible to use physical > SCSI devices from a XEN domain. > > The support consists of a backend in the privileged Domain-0 doing the real > I/O and a frontend in the unprivileged domU passing I/O-requests to the backend. > > The code is taken (and adapted) from the original pvSCSI implementation done > for Linux 2.6 in 2008 by Fujitsu. > > [PATCH V2 1/4] Add XEN pvSCSI protocol description > [PATCH V2 2/4] Introduce xen-scsifront module > [PATCH V2 3/4] Introduce XEN scsiback module > [PATCH V2 4/4] add xen pvscsi maintainer > > Changes in V4: > - Re-add define for VSCSIIF_ACT_SCSI_SG_PRESET to vscsiif.h to indicate this > action value should not be used in future enhancements > > Changes in V3: > - added some comments to the protocol header file > - removed the CDB emulation from xen-scsiback, handled by core target > infrastructure > - several changes in xen-scsifront after comments from Christoph Hellwig > > Changes in V2: > - use core target infrastructure by backend instead of pure SCSI passthrough > - add support for larger SG lists by putting them in grant page(s) > - add command abort capability > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xen.org > http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel >