RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/5] pvSCSI (SCSI pass through) driver

["Ian Pratt" <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> This seems to have been hanging around for ages. If there's no
argument
> otherwise I'll give it a read through and stick it in for 3.2.0.

Yep, its certainly a candidate for 3.2, but I'd class the API as
"experimental" at this stage and not commit to supporting it going
forward as-is just yet.

Things I'd like to see: 
 * performance results (hopefully at the summit!)
 * variable sized comms rings (fixed at connect time) so we can queue
more descriptors if req'd.
 * support for pass through of individual scsi logical units to the
dom0's linux scsi-generic layer rather than whole HBAs -- I think most
users will want to hide all that FC nastiness and just present a LUN.

Best,
Ian


> > These patches provide functionality that guest domain can issue
> > complete SCSI command to FC-SCSI HBA(Fibre Channel SCSI Host Bus
> > Adapter) assigned to the guest domain.
> > Using this functionality, guest domain can control such as tape
> device
> > for backup and so on.
> >
> > We hope these patches will be merged into Xen 3.2.0.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -----
> > Jun Kamada
> >
> >
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