On 09/12/2009 04:55 AM, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > Greetings all, > > This is my humble request for review and inclusion of > Target_Core_Mod/ConfigFS v3.2 from lio-core-2.6.git code into mainline > v2.6.32. With TCM v3.2, the two major SPC-4 SCSI target mode fabric > features that have now been completed: Persistent Reservation APTPL and > implict/explict ALUA are the first all optional SPC4 defined feature > implementation of PR and ALUA in the Linux OSS target theatre using an > upstream user-driven virtual filesystem directory hierarchy structure > based on configfs that can be configured in realtime in combination with > interpreted userspace code. > > Both of these new features are now being used to provide Persistent Reservations > across target power loss and asymmetric multipath I/O to both Linux and non-Linux > clients. There is also an optional ALUA transition delay logic that has been > included to futher debug and improve existing upstream client side Linux kernel code > using TCM v3.2. These patches have been diffed against v2.6.31, and tested on x86 > 32-bit HVM, x86_64 KVM, and powerpc. > > There is cleanup work continuing to make the TCM code to use dprintk(), > and some include cleanups, and other minor fixes. The code has also > been run through checkpatch again since the posting in April, and all > errors have been removed, with the exception of one ConfigFS macro > define triggering a checkpatch false positive. > > As with the posting of the TCM v3.0 code earlier in April, I have > decided to break up the submissions into the generic target_core_mod > piece (this patch series) and then a seperate one that will be appearing > in the next days for v3.2 of the LIO-Target iSCSI fabric module. > > More Information about Target_Core_Mod/ConfigFS, and PR and ALUA: > > http://www.linux-iscsi.org/index.php/Target_Core_Mod/ConfigFS > http://www.linux-iscsi.org/index.php/Persistent_Reservations > http://www.linux-iscsi.org/index.php/ALUA > > The complete v3.x TCM CLI operations set can be found here: > > http://www.linux-iscsi.org/index.php/Lio-utils#v3.1_TCM_CLI_operations > > Instructions and examples for getting setup: > > http://linux-iscsi.org/builds/docs/LIO-3.0-Users_Reference_Manual.pdf > http://www.linux-iscsi.org/index.php/Howto#Start_target_core_mod > > Constructive comments are welcome, > > --nab > > ==> target_core_alua.patch <== > [RFC PATCH 1/19] Target_Core_Mod Asymmetric Logical Unit Assignment (ALUA) support > ==> target_core_configfs.patch <== > [RFC PATCH 2/19] Target_Core_Mod ConfigFS infrastructure > ==> target_core_device.patch <== > [RFC PATCH 3/19] Target_Core_Mod device core infrastructure > ==> target_core_file.patch <== > [RFC PATCH 4/19] Target_Core_Mod FILEIO <-> Linux/VFS subsystem > ==> target_core_hba.patch <== > [RFC PATCH 5/19] Target_Core_Mod HBA core infrastructure > ==> target_core_iblock.patch <== > [RFC PATCH 6/19] Target_Core_Mod IBLOCK <-> Linux/Block subsystem plugin > ==> target_core_mib.patch <== > [RFC PATCH 7/19] Target_Core_Mod SCSI MIBs > ==> target_core_plugin.patch <== > [RFC PATCH 8/19] Target_Core_Mod Subsystem and SE Object plugin infrastructure > ==> target_core_pr.patch <== > [RFC PATCH 9/19] Target_Core_Mod SPC-4 Persistent Reservations > ==> target_core_pscsi.patch <== > [RFC PATCH 10/19] Target_Core_Mod PSCSI <-> Linux/SCSI subsystem plugin > ==> target_core_rd.patch <== > [RFC PATCH 11/19] Target_Core_Mod RAMDISK_DR and RAMDISK_MCP subsystem plugin > ==> target_core_scdb.patch <== > [RFC PATCH 12/19] Target_Core_Mod READ/WRITE command descriptor block generation code > ==> target_core_seobj.patch <== > [RFC PATCH 13/19] Target_Core_Mod Storage Engine Object infrastructure > ==> target_core_tmr.patch <== > [RFC PATCH 14/19] Target_Core_Mod Task Management infrastructure > ==> target_core_tpg.patch <== > [RFC PATCH 15/19] Target_Core_Mod portal group endpoint infrastructure > ==> target_core_transport.patch <== > [RFC PATCH 16/19] Target_Core_Mod Generic Transport Core > ==> target_core_ua.patch <== > [RFC PATCH 17/19] Target_Core_Mod Unit Attention emulation support > ==> target_core_base_includes.patch <== > [RFC PATCH 18/19] Target_Core_Mod base and fabric_module includes > ==> target_core_misc.patch <== > [RFC PATCH 19/19] Target_Core_Mod Makefile/Kconfig and div64.c > I would like to see a documentation patch which adds a file under Documentation/ With some abstraction, design, usability, URLs I promise to read it ;-) I'm sure you have lots of stuff written laying around. Could you edit them up for Linux? Boaz -- 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
