From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>,
davem@davemloft.net, Divy Le Ray <divy@chelsio.com>,
Karen Xie <kxie@chelsio.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, open-iscsi@googlegroups.com,
michaelc@cs.wisc.edu, daisyc@us.ibm.com, wenxiong@us.ibm.com,
bhua@us.ibm.com, Dimitrios Michailidis <dm@chelsio.com>,
Casey Leedom <leedom@chelsio.com>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/1] cxgb3i: cxgb3 iSCSI initiator
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:49:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <489EE3DC.9060202@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080810101935.5c8e8e9a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Alan Cox wrote:
>> - It doesn't work in theory, because the suggestion (I guess) is that
>> the iSCSI HBA has its own MAC and IP and behaves like a separate
>
> The iSCSI HBA is its own system - that is the root of the problem.
Indeed.
Just like with TOE, from the net stack's point of view, an iSCSI HBA is
essentially a wholly asynchronous remote system [with a really fast
communication bus like PCI Express].
As such, the task becomes updating the net stack such that
formerly-private resources are now shared with an independent, external
system... with all the complexity, additional failure modes, and
additional security complications that come along with that.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-10 12:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-30 0:19 [RFC][PATCH 1/1] cxgb3i: cxgb3 iSCSI initiator Karen Xie
2008-07-30 18:15 ` Shyam_Iyer
2008-07-30 18:37 ` Karen Xie
2008-07-30 19:21 ` Roland Dreier
2008-07-30 19:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-30 21:35 ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-01 0:51 ` Divy Le Ray
2008-08-07 18:45 ` Divy Le Ray
2008-08-07 20:07 ` Mike Christie
2008-08-08 18:09 ` Steve Wise
2008-08-08 22:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-08-08 22:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-08-09 7:28 ` David Miller
2008-08-09 14:04 ` Steve Wise
2008-08-10 5:14 ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-10 5:47 ` David Miller
2008-08-10 6:34 ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-10 17:57 ` Steve Wise
2008-08-11 16:09 ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-11 21:09 ` David Miller
2008-08-11 21:37 ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-11 21:51 ` David Miller
2008-08-11 23:20 ` Steve Wise
2008-08-11 23:45 ` Divy Le Ray
2008-08-12 0:22 ` David Miller
2008-08-10 5:12 ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-10 5:46 ` David Miller
2008-08-11 16:07 ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-11 21:08 ` David Miller
2008-08-11 21:39 ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-11 21:52 ` David Miller
2008-08-11 18:13 ` Rick Jones
2008-08-11 21:12 ` David Miller
2008-08-11 21:41 ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-11 21:53 ` David Miller
2008-08-12 21:57 ` Divy Le Ray
2008-08-12 22:01 ` David Miller
2008-08-12 22:02 ` David Miller
2008-08-12 22:21 ` Divy Le Ray
2008-08-13 1:57 ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-13 18:35 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-08-13 19:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-08-13 20:13 ` David Miller
2008-08-14 18:24 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-08-14 21:59 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2008-08-13 20:23 ` David Miller
2008-08-14 18:27 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-08-14 18:30 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-08-13 21:27 ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-13 22:08 ` David Miller
2008-08-13 23:03 ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-13 23:12 ` David Miller
2008-08-14 1:26 ` Tom Tucker
2008-08-14 1:37 ` David Miller
2008-08-14 1:52 ` Steve Wise
2008-08-14 2:05 ` David Miller
2008-08-14 2:44 ` Steve Wise
2008-08-14 1:57 ` Tom Tucker
2008-08-14 2:07 ` David Miller
2008-08-14 2:09 ` David Miller
2008-08-14 20:45 ` Andrew Gallatin
2008-08-14 22:23 ` David Miller
2008-08-15 12:19 ` Andrew Gallatin
2008-08-10 6:24 ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-10 9:19 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-10 12:49 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2008-08-10 14:54 ` James Bottomley
[not found] ` <1218380086.3418.21.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2008-08-11 16:50 ` Mike Christie
2008-07-31 1:24 ` Karen Xie
2008-07-31 12:45 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-07-31 12:33 ` Boaz Harrosh
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