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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] tcm_vhost/virtio-scsi WIP code for-3.6
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 16:52:00 +0200
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To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
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Il 04/07/2012 16:02, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
> On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 04:24:00AM +0000, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
>> From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
>>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> This series contains patches required to update tcm_vhost <-> virtio-scsi
>> connected hosts <-> guests to run on v3.5-rc2 mainline code.  This series is
>> available on top of target-pending/auto-next here:
>>
>>    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending.git tcm_vhost
>>
>> This includes the necessary vhost changes from Stefan to to get tcm_vhost
>> functioning, along a virtio-scsi LUN scanning change to address a client bug
>> with tcm_vhost I ran into..  Also, tcm_vhost driver has been merged into a single
>> source + header file that is now living under /drivers/vhost/, along with latest
>> tcm_vhost changes from Zhi's tcm_vhost tree.
>>
>> Here are a couple of screenshots of the code in action using raw IBLOCK
>> backends provided by FusionIO ioDrive Duo:
>>
>>    http://linux-iscsi.org/images/Virtio-scsi-tcm-vhost-3.5-rc2-3.png
>>    http://linux-iscsi.org/images/Virtio-scsi-tcm-vhost-3.5-rc2-4.png
>>
>> So the next steps on my end will be converting tcm_vhost to submit backend I/O from
>> cmwq context, along with fio benchmark numbers between tcm_vhost/virtio-scsi and
>> virtio-scsi-raw using raw IBLOCK iomemory_vsl flash.
> 
> OK so this is an RFC, not for merge yet?

Patch 6 definitely looks RFCish, but patch 5 should go in anyway.

Paolo