From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sagi Grimberg Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] target updates for v3.18-rc2 Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:24:59 +0300 Message-ID: <5446266B.4080800@dev.mellanox.co.il> References: <1413848357.16343.35.camel@haakon3.risingtidesystems.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-wg0-f42.google.com ([74.125.82.42]:46302 "EHLO mail-wg0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755105AbaJUJZF (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2014 05:25:05 -0400 Received: by mail-wg0-f42.google.com with SMTP id z12so847270wgg.1 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2014 02:25:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1413848357.16343.35.camel@haakon3.risingtidesystems.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" Cc: target-devel , linux-scsi On 10/21/2014 2:39 AM, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > Hi Linus, > > Here are the target updates for v3.18-rc2 code. These where originally > destined for -rc1, but due to the combination of travel last week for > KVM Forum and my mistake of taking the three week merge window > literally, the pull request slipped.. Apologies for that. > > A heads-up that you'll hit one minor conflict with scsi.git, that was > caught by sfr in linux-next here: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-next&m=141223868207635&w=2 > > Please go ahead and pull from: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending.git for-next > > Things where reasonably quiet this round. The highlights include: > > - New userspace backend driver (target_core_user.ko) by Shaohua Li > and Andy Grover > - A number of cleanups in target, iscsi-taret and qla_target code > from Joern Engel > - Fix an OOPs related to queue full handling with CHECK_CONDITION > status from Quinn Tran > - Fix to disable TX completion interrupt coalescing in iser-target, > that was causing problems on some hardware > - Fix for PR APTPL metadata handling with demo-mode ACLs > > I'm most excited about the new backend driver that uses UIO + shared > memory ring to dispatch I/O and control commands into user-space. This > was probably the most requested feature by users over the last couple of > years, and opens up a new area of development + porting of existing > user-space storage applications to LIO. Thanks to Shaohua + Andy for > making this happen. > > Also another honorable mention, a new Xen PV SCSI driver was merged via > the xen/tip.git tree recently, which puts us now at 10 target drivers in > upstream! Thanks to David Vrabel + Juergen Gross for their work to get > this code merged. > > Thank you, > Nic, Why are these fixes are not included? Target/iser: Fix initiator_depth and responder_resources Target/iser: Avoid calling rdma_disconnect twice Target/iser: Don't put isert_conn inside disconnected handler Target/iser: Get isert_conn reference once got to connected_handler They are sitting around for some time and were supposed to make it to 3.17, I don't want these to miss 3.18 too... Sagi.