Re: [RFC 13/34] iscsi-target: add new transport type

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On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 01:28:58PM -0800, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-03-01 at 06:48 -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > This really looks like an odd interface.  I think everyone will
> > be much happpier in the long run if you do a generic offload interface
> > instead of special casing each possible driver.
> 
> Yes, I think iscsit_transport_type should to be replaced with an enum
> defining three types:
> 
>   - TCP using Linux/NET + stateless hw offload
>   - TCP using hw iscsi + network offload
>   - RDMA using iser-target offload
> 
> iscsit_transport_type was originally introduced to support TCP and SCTP
> network portal (which is still there btw), and since nobody cares about
> SCTP anymore, we can just drop it.
> 
> Varun, let's go in this direction for -v2 code, and use this new enum
> for existing special cases that -v1 touches.

Should we allow registration of multiple same transport type
offload drivers with iscsi-target?
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