On 01/28/2014 02:41 PM, Alex Elsayed wrote: > Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: >> Unfortunately, I've not had time to review the series, and still owe >> Shaohua feedback on his original posting from November. I expect to be >> (finally) getting to this code by mid February, and start making forward >> progress for v3.15 shortly thereafter. > > Having looked at the patch, I have one big question: Why create a whole new > method for setting up a userspace/kernelspace ring buffer, when vhost > exists? I think it's because in one (vhost?) the request/response is user-to-kernel. Whereas with userback, request/response is kernel-to-user? vhost is registering as a fabric with target_fabric_configfs_register, and userback registers as a backstore with LIO with transport_subsystem_register. -- Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe target-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
