From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/6] SCSI series part 2, rewrite LUN parsing
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 18:14:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110520161436.GA5149@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1305903817-25476-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 05:03:31PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> This is the second part of my SCSI work. The first is still pending
> and this one is incomplete, but I still would like to get opinions
> early enough because this design directly affects the UI.
>
> This series is half of the work that is necessary to support multiple
> LUNs behind a target. The idea is to have two devices, "scsi-path"
> and "scsi-target", each of which provides both a SCSIDevice and a
> SCSIBus.
I don't quite understand what you mean with path here. It doesn't
seem to map to any SAM concept, nor does it seem to be related
to traditional multipathing.
Can you explain what a path is supposed to be, and why it's called a "path"?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-20 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-20 15:03 [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/6] SCSI series part 2, rewrite LUN parsing Paolo Bonzini
2011-05-20 15:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/6] scsi: ignore LUN field in the CDB Paolo Bonzini
2011-05-20 16:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-20 15:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/6] scsi: support parsing of SAM logical unit numbers Paolo Bonzini
2011-05-25 13:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-20 15:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 3/6] scsi-generic: allow customization of the lun Paolo Bonzini
2011-05-25 13:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-25 15:20 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-05-27 13:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-27 13:31 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-05-20 15:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 4/6] scsi-disk: " Paolo Bonzini
2011-05-25 13:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-20 15:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 5/6] scsi: let a SCSIDevice have children devices Paolo Bonzini
2011-05-20 15:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 6/6] scsi: add walking of hierarchical LUNs Paolo Bonzini
2011-05-20 16:14 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-05-20 17:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/6] SCSI series part 2, rewrite LUN parsing Paolo Bonzini
2011-05-25 13:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-25 15:08 ` Paolo Bonzini
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