Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V5 0/5] Add XEN pvSCSI support

["Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Juergen & Co,

On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 11:31 +0200, jgross@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> This series adds XEN pvSCSI support. With pvSCSI it is possible to use 
> physical
> SCSI devices from a XEN domain.
> 
> The support consists of a backend in the privileged Domain-0 doing the real
> I/O and a frontend in the unprivileged domU passing I/O-requests to the 
> backend.
> 
> The code is taken (and adapted) from the original pvSCSI implementation done
> for Linux 2.6 in 2008 by Fujitsu.
> 
> [PATCH V5 1/5] xen/events: support threaded irqs for interdomain event 
> channels
> [PATCH V5 2/5] Add XEN pvSCSI protocol description
> [PATCH V5 3/5] Introduce xen-scsifront module
> [PATCH V5 4/5] Introduce XEN scsiback module
> [PATCH V5 5/5] add xen pvscsi maintainer
> 
> Changes in V5:
> - Added patch to support threaded irqs for interdomain event channels
> - several changes in xen-scsifront after comments from Christoph Hellwig
> - several changes in xen-scsiback after comments from Christoph Hellwig
> - several changes in xen-scsiback after comments from James Bottomley
> 
> Changes in V4:
> - Re-add define for VSCSIIF_ACT_SCSI_SG_PRESET to vscsiif.h to indicate this
>   action value should not be used in future enhancements
> 
> Changes in V3:
> - added some comments to the protocol header file
> - removed the CDB emulation from xen-scsiback, handled by core target
>   infrastructure
> - several changes in xen-scsifront after comments from Christoph Hellwig
> 
> Changes in V2:
> - use core target infrastructure by backend instead of pure SCSI passthrough
> - add support for larger SG lists by putting them in grant page(s)
> - add command abort capability
> 

For the XEN scsiback parts as a new target fabric driver, feel free to
add my:

Reviewed-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

So I assume this will be merged for v3.18 via the xen.git tree, yes..?

--nab


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