On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 08:58:02PM -0600, Mike Christie wrote: > The following patches begin to add the infrastructure for the SCSI > Userspace target framework. We were not sure about what James meant by > some of his comments, so rather than getting to far we want to post a > early. > > As the email subject hints, the goal of the project is to push most of > the target code to userspace. The only parts we kept in the kernel were > for transferring data between the LLD and userpsace and the netlink > interface. We included the relevant parts of a software iscsi target as > an example. I'm glad this got posted, I've been wanting something like this for a while. My own personal interest is implementing a tSCSI (my answer to iSCSI) target. One random comment: Take a look at the mmap'd ring buffer interface provided by mmap'ing the packet socket. That's the ideal async interface, since that's fully async, very close to hardware reality. Jeff - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
