On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 12:52 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 07:38:19 -0700 > > > So you are creating sockets just to reserve TCP ports to avoid host > > stack clashes with your offload engine? Wasn't this approach strongly > > rejected (in the context of iWARP) in the past? > > Yes, it was, and likewise similar hacks in other areas will > be rejected similarly. > If we change the implementation to use a separate IP address and separate MAC address for iSCSI, will it be acceptable? The iSCSI IP/MAC addresses will be unknown to the Linux TCP stack and so no sharing of the 4-tuple space will be needed. The patches will be very similar, except that all inet calls and notifiers will be removed. -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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
