Hi Juergen & Co, On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 11:31 +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. > > [PATCH V5 1/5] xen/events: support threaded irqs for interdomain event channels > [PATCH V5 2/5] Add XEN pvSCSI protocol description > [PATCH V5 3/5] Introduce xen-scsifront module > [PATCH V5 4/5] Introduce XEN scsiback module > [PATCH V5 5/5] add xen pvscsi maintainer > > Changes in V5: > - Added patch to support threaded irqs for interdomain event channels > - several changes in xen-scsifront after comments from Christoph Hellwig > - several changes in xen-scsiback after comments from Christoph Hellwig > - several changes in xen-scsiback after comments from James Bottomley > > Changes in V4: > - Re-add define for VSCSIIF_ACT_SCSI_SG_PRESET to vscsiif.h to indicate this > action value should not be used in future enhancements > > Changes in V3: > - added some comments to the protocol header file > - removed the CDB emulation from xen-scsiback, handled by core target > infrastructure > - several changes in xen-scsifront after comments from Christoph Hellwig > > 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 > For the XEN scsiback parts as a new target fabric driver, feel free to add my: Reviewed-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> So I assume this will be merged for v3.18 via the xen.git tree, yes..? --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
