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From: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
To: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: Alex Elsayed <eternaleye@gmail.com>,
	target-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] target: Add a user-passthrough backstore
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:00:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54208E03.8030906@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1411419532.24986.36.camel@haakon3.risingtidesystems.com>

On 09/22/2014 01:58 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> So I'd still like to start for an initial merge with the two different
> modes mentioned earlier.  The pure-passthrough mode where everything is
> handled by user-space, and an I/O passthrough mode where only
> SCF_SCSI_DATA_CDB is passed along to userspace, but all other control
> CDBs are handled by existing in-kernel emulation.
>
> Andy, can you re-spin a series with these two approaches in mind..?

Will do. This is actually close to what the initial RFC version I posted 
did.

-- Andy



  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-22 21:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-15 23:12 [PATCH 0/4] Userspace Passthrough backstore for LIO Andy Grover
2014-09-15 23:12 ` [PATCH 1/4] target: Remove unneeded check in sbc_parse_cdb Andy Grover
2014-09-15 23:12 ` [PATCH 2/4] uio: Export definition of struct uio_device Andy Grover
2014-09-15 23:12 ` [PATCH 3/4] target: Add documentation on the target userspace pass-through driver Andy Grover
2014-09-15 23:12 ` [PATCH 4/4] target: Add a user-passthrough backstore Andy Grover
2014-09-19 21:14   ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
     [not found]     ` <lvi81j$ud8$2@ger.gmane.org>
2014-09-19 23:39       ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-09-19 23:51         ` Alex Elsayed
2014-09-20  0:35           ` Andy Grover
2014-09-22 20:58             ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-09-22 21:00               ` Andy Grover [this message]
2014-09-22 21:03                 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2014-09-22 20:36           ` Nicholas A. Bellinger

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