On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 04:34:32PM +0200, jgross@xxxxxxxx wrote: > This series adds XEN pvSCSI support. With pvSCSI it is possible to use physical > SCSI devices from a XEN domain. > > The support consists of a backend in the privileged Domain-0 doing the real > I/O and a frontend in the unprivileged domU passing I/O-requests to the backend. > > The code is taken (and adapted) from the original pvSCSI implementation done > for Linux 2.6 in 2008 by Fujitsu. > Great! I added James Harper to CC, I know he has a port of at least scsiback aswell, and he has a PVSCSI frontend driver included in the GPLPV Windows Xen PV drivers. Btw do these patches also include the "latest" PVSCSI fixes/enhancements done in the SuSe/SLES kernel? (for example the RESERVE/RELEASE support). -- Pasi > [PATCH 1/4] Add XEN pvSCSI protocol description > [PATCH 2/4] Introduce xen-scsifront module > [PATCH 3/4] Introduce XEN scsiback module > [PATCH 4/4] add xen pvscsi maintainer > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel -- 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
