Or Gerlitz wrote: > Or Gerlitz wrote: >> This patch allows for iscsi transport to have its connection being >> established and disconnected from the kernel. >> >> The patch is the sixth iscsi update to 2.6.18 and is needed by iser, >> it is relative to the five iscsi patches sent by Mike Christie. >> >> Doing this is a must for iSER and some of the iscsi offloads but on the >> other hand not needed for TCP where a socket (fd) is connected in user >> space >> and then sent down to the kernel where struct sock is retrieved from >> the fd. >> >> The iscsi user space implementation was enhanced to have a user space >> transport where TCP is doing things directly from user space and iSER >> is using the extension to the iscsi u/k IPC ABI to do things in the >> kernel. >> >> Acked-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > James, Christoph: > > As the iscsi patches sent by Mike Christie were accepted and merged into > the scsi-misc git tree, this patch is the remaining iscsi related piece > on which iser is dependent and is not yet accepted for upstream push. > > We really need your feedback on the patch, which allowed us to remove > the pseudo socket from iser (Christoph is aware to the details). > I was going to send this patch with a update I was making (trying to send them by the end of the week). I can resend this with my other stuff if it is ok with everyone. - : 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
