On Tue, 2014-10-21 at 12:24 +0300, Sagi Grimberg wrote: > On 10/21/2014 2:39 AM, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > > Hi Linus, > > > > Here are the target updates for v3.18-rc2 code. These where originally > > destined for -rc1, but due to the combination of travel last week for > > KVM Forum and my mistake of taking the three week merge window > > literally, the pull request slipped.. Apologies for that. > > > > A heads-up that you'll hit one minor conflict with scsi.git, that was > > caught by sfr in linux-next here: > > > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-next&m=141223868207635&w=2 > > > > Please go ahead and pull from: > > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending.git for-next > > > > Things where reasonably quiet this round. The highlights include: > > > > - New userspace backend driver (target_core_user.ko) by Shaohua Li > > and Andy Grover > > - A number of cleanups in target, iscsi-taret and qla_target code > > from Joern Engel > > - Fix an OOPs related to queue full handling with CHECK_CONDITION > > status from Quinn Tran > > - Fix to disable TX completion interrupt coalescing in iser-target, > > that was causing problems on some hardware > > - Fix for PR APTPL metadata handling with demo-mode ACLs > > > > I'm most excited about the new backend driver that uses UIO + shared > > memory ring to dispatch I/O and control commands into user-space. This > > was probably the most requested feature by users over the last couple of > > years, and opens up a new area of development + porting of existing > > user-space storage applications to LIO. Thanks to Shaohua + Andy for > > making this happen. > > > > Also another honorable mention, a new Xen PV SCSI driver was merged via > > the xen/tip.git tree recently, which puts us now at 10 target drivers in > > upstream! Thanks to David Vrabel + Juergen Gross for their work to get > > this code merged. > > > > Thank you, > > > > Nic, > > Why are these fixes are not included? > > Target/iser: Fix initiator_depth and responder_resources > Target/iser: Avoid calling rdma_disconnect twice > Target/iser: Don't put isert_conn inside disconnected handler > Target/iser: Get isert_conn reference once got to connected_handler > > They are sitting around for some time and were supposed to make it to > 3.17, I don't want these to miss 3.18 too... > Those went in for v3.17 with the appropriate CC's for stable. https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/infiniband/ulp/isert?id=c2f88b17a1d97ca4ecd96cc22333a7a4f1407d39 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/infiniband/ulp/isert?id=0fc4ea701fcf5bc51ace4e288af5be741465f776 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/infiniband/ulp/isert?id=38a8316b5d80ddee071d493bae567185c07de359 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/infiniband/ulp/isert?id=1a92e17e39b9a5d476e0a7aa52280e76321834ee --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
