RE: [RFC] adding per scsi-host workqueues for defered processing

2005-03-05 Thread James . Smart
Following discussions which resulted from the: [RFC] target code updates to support scanned targets http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsim=110850749515984w=2 thread, the overall consensus seems to be that transport-classes should support a 'true-hotplug' mechanism of device discovery and

RE: [RFC] adding per scsi-host workqueues for defered processing

2005-03-05 Thread James . Smart
In thinking this through a little further - if the workq is just for the transport, the transport ought to simply create and use the workq. There would be no need to modify the host structure. If we're trying to avoid the potential for several workq's on a per-host basis (one by the transport,

Re: [ANNOUNCE 0/6] Open-iSCSI High-Performance Initiator for Linux

2005-03-05 Thread Mike Christie
Alex Aizman wrote: This is to announce Open-iSCSI project: High-Performance iSCSI Initiator for Linux. MOTIVATION == Our initial motivations for the project were: (1) implement the right user/kernel split, and (2) design iSCSI data path for performance. Recently we added (3): get accepted