On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 08:22 +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:13:07 -0700 > "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 08:06 +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:34:33 -0700 > > > "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 17:22 -0500, Brian King wrote: > > > > > Tomo, > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for all the work you've done with this driver. It is much appreciated. > > > > > > > > > > What sort of performance are you seeing with this? With filebacked devices, I > > > > > was seeing around 1 MB/sec doing a basic disktest run. I haven't compared this > > > > > to ibmvstgt, but I'm pretty sure we did a fair bit better there. Perhaps I've got > > > > > some setup issue? > > > > > > > > > > I tried a ramdisk device and saw this on the server: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > DMA_TO_DEVICE not supported for RAMDISK_DR with task_sg_chaining=1 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > So for the RAMDISK_DR (direct) SGL memory mapping case we do not support > > > > WRITEs for HW fabric modules using task_sg_changing=1. > > > > > > > > Please go ahead and use RAMDISK_MCP instead, and I will look at adding a > > > > special case in target_core_fabric_configfs.c code to disallow > > > > RAMDISK_DR symlink creation of configfs ports for target fabric modules > > > > using task_sg_chaining=1. > > > > > > I really want to remove 'task_sg_chaining=0', all the drivers support > > > sg chaining. It's a hacky. What drivers doesn't support it? > > > > It's only drivers for which we are not using HW provided scatterlists > > into TCM backend memory, which today is just iscsi_target_mod > > iscsi_target_rx_thread() -> sock_recvmsg() code. > > Please fix iscsi_target_mod then. <nod>. I drop this flag for the next round of target core v4.1 code, and just use iscsi_target_mod's target_core_fabric_ops->alloc_cmd_iovecs() to know when to prevent RAMDISK_DR export for the typical non iscsi_target_mod case. Best Regards, --nab -- 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
