> - Reuse the existing SRP initiator (ib_srp). Currently there are two > SRP initiators present in the Linux kernel -- one that uses the RDMA > verbs API (ib_srp) and one that only works with IBM's i/pSeries > hypervisor (ibmvscsi). This would be sane, although the difference in management APIs etc made this seem like quite a bit of work when I looked at it (hence the existence of both ibmvscsi and ib_srp). > - Reuse the ib_ipoib kernel module to provide an IP stack on top of > the new RDMA driver instead of having to maintain a separate network > driver for this hardware (ibmveth). I don't think this really makes sense, because IPoIB is not really handling ethernet (it is a different L2 ethernet encapsulation), and I think the commonality with ibmveth is going to be minimal. I'm not really sure we should be trying to force drivers to share just because they are paravirtualized -- if there is real commonality, then sure put it in common code, but different hypervisors are probably as different as different hardware. - R. -- 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
