Re: [ANNOUNCE 0/6] Open-iSCSI High-Performance Initiator for Linux

[Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>]

On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 11:03:14PM -0800, Alex Aizman wrote:
> As far as user/kernel, the existing iSCSI initiators bloat the kernel with
> ever-growing control plane code, including but not limited to: iSCSI
> discovery, Login (Authentication and Operational), session and connection
> management, connection-level error processing, iSCSI Text, Nop-Out/In, Async
> Message, iSNS, SLP, Radius... Open-iSCSI puts the entire control plane in
> the user space. This control plane talks to the data plane via well defined
> interface over the netlink transport.

How big is the userspace client?

How does this perform under memory pressure? If the userspace iSCSI
client is paged out for whatever reason, and flushing _to_ an iSCSI
device is necessary to page the usersace portion back in, and the
connection needs restarting or the like to flush... 
 
> Performance.
> This is the major goal and motivation for this project. As it happens, iSCSI
> has to compete with Fibre Channel, which is a more entrenched technology in
> the storage space. In addition, the "soft" iSCSI implementation have to show
> good results in presence of specialized hardware offloads.
> 
> Our today's performance numbers are:
> 
> - 450MB/sec Read on a single connection (2-way 2.4Ghz Opteron, 64KB block 
> size);

With what network hardware and drives, please?

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