On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 01:37:29PM +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. > About the question that Christopher Hellwig asked - was that ever answered? > The code is taken (and adapted) from the original pvSCSI implementation done > for Linux 2.6 in 2008 by Fujitsu. > > [PATCH V2 1/4] Add XEN pvSCSI protocol description > [PATCH V2 2/4] Introduce xen-scsifront module > [PATCH V2 3/4] Introduce XEN scsiback module > [PATCH V2 4/4] add xen pvscsi maintainer > > Changes in V2: > - use core target infrastructure by backend instead of pure SCSI passthrough > - add support for larger SG lists by putting them in grant page(s) > - add command abort capability -- 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
