[PATCH 0/4 2.6.28] cxgb3i iscsi initiator driver

2008-08-27 Thread Karen Xie
Hi, everyone, Please review our new version of the iSCSI Initiator drivers for Chelsio S3 adapters. We have updated the code with the feedbacks received, including getting rid of most of the __GFP_NOFAIL allocation. The cxgb3i driver provides iscsi acceleration (PDU digest offload and payload

[PATCH 2/4 2.6.28] cxgb3 - handle ARP replies for private iSCSI IP address

2008-08-27 Thread Karen Xie
[PATCH 2/4 2.6.28] cxgb3 - handle ARP replies for private iSCSI IP address From: Karen Xie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The accelerated iSCSI traffic uses a private IP address unknown to the OS. The driver has to reply to ARP requests dedicated to the private IP address. Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray <[EMA

[PATCH 1/4 2.6.28] cxgb3 - manage a private ip address for iSCSI

2008-08-27 Thread Karen Xie
[PATCH 1/4 2.6.28] cxgb3 - manage a private ip address for iSCSI From: Karen Xie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Create a per port sysfs entry to pass an IP address to the NIC driver, and a control call for the iSCSI driver to grab it. The IP address is required in both drivers to manage ARP requests and

[PATCH 1/1] open-iscsi - add cxgb3i transport iface

2008-08-27 Thread Karen Xie
[PATCH 1/1] open-iscsi - add cxgb3i transport iface From: Karen Xie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add cxgb3i transport interface for open-iscsi user space tool. Signed-off-by: Karen Xie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- usr/transport.c |8 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --gi

[PATCH 3/4 2.6.28] open-iscsi - support for digest offload and payload DDP

2008-08-27 Thread Karen Xie
[PATCH 3/4 2.6.28] open-iscsi - support for digest offload and payload DDP. From: Karen Xie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Added PDU digest offload and payload direct-placement support in open-iscsi. Signed-off-by: Karen Xie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c| 56

Re: open-iscsi ideal filesystem?

2008-08-27 Thread Nandkumar
Documentation section of http://christophe.varoqui.free.fr/ will give you enough insight of multipath. After installing multipath tools, you can find info about each parameter of multipath.conf in /usr/share/doc/device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7/multipath.conf.annotated file. Thanks Nankdumar On Aug

Re: Odd behaviour during unidirectional CHAP authentication

2008-08-27 Thread Nandkumar
Thanks Shyam. So in this case target replies with NONE as it has choosen NONE between CHAP and NONE. Here initiator is asking for authentication and Target is not ready for authentication. In this scenario authentication should fail. Right? To make authentication strict, initiator should only pas

Re: open-iscsi ideal filesystem?

2008-08-27 Thread An Oneironaut
Ok, To answer the questions. The timeout time I have setup is 600 seconds which is the limit of what I'd like to do. The problem with a long time out is that every operation that could possibly happen on that mount will freeze up for ${TIMEOUT} seconds. The worst one is reload which will fr

Re: Build problems with 869.2

2008-08-27 Thread v42bis
On Aug 27, 1:34 am, "Erez Zilber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you don't plan to use iSER, you can remove the line the loads it in > the init script (where it says something like modprobe ib_iser). If > you do plan to use iSER, there's also a solution for that. > > Erez > Rather than havin

Re: open-iscsi ideal filesystem?

2008-08-27 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Konrad Rzeszutek schrieb: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:37:46PM -0700, An Oneironaut wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> I was wondering if anyone out there had tested open-iscsi with a >> variety of Linux filesystems to see what works best. Currently I am >> using the ext3 fs and for months now have bee

Re: open-iscsi ideal filesystem?

2008-08-27 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:37:46PM -0700, An Oneironaut wrote: > > Hey all, > > I was wondering if anyone out there had tested open-iscsi with a > variety of Linux filesystems to see what works best. Currently I am > using the ext3 fs and for months now have been suffering problems. > Anyti

RE: Odd behaviour during unidirectional CHAP authentication

2008-08-27 Thread Shyam_Iyer
Nandkumar wrote: > Here is what initiator and taget passes to each other while iscsi negotiation phase. Assuming CHAP is only enabled on initiator and not on target. > 1) Initiator pass "CHAP,NONE" as Authentication parameter. > 2) Target replies with "NONE". > 3) Both will settle on "NONE" as Auth

Re: Build problems with 869.2

2008-08-27 Thread Erez Zilber
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:42 PM, v42bis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Aug 26, 6:23 am, "Erez Zilber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:20 AM, v42bis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Just saw the thread about rhel5 symbol problems, which seems to be my >> > issue. Tri