On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 07:01:05PM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 18:05 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 04:52:00PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > >> > > > >> 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 > > > > I was talking about 4/6 first of all. > > So yeah, this code is still considered RFC at this point for-3.6, but > I'd like to get this into target-pending/for-next in next week for more > feedback and start collecting signoffs for the necessary pieces that > effect existing vhost code. > > By that time the cmwq conversion of tcm_vhost should be in place as > well.. I'll try to give some feedback but I think we do need to see the qemu patches - they weren't posted yet, were they? This driver has some userspace interface and once that is merged it has to be supported. So I think we need the buy-in from the qemu side at the principal level. > > Anyway, it's best to split, not to mix RFCs and fixes. > > > > <nod>, I'll send patch #5 separately to linux-scsi -> James and CC > stable following Paolo's request. > > Thanks! > > --nab -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
