Ang: Re: Ang: Re: [Stgt-devel] Re: [Iscsitarget-devel] stgt a new version of iscsi target?
Ming Zhang
mingz at ele.uri.edu
Wed Dec 7 15:53:02 CET 2005
On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 15:28 +0100, johan at capvert.se wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
>
> Well, I´m happy with QLA and LSI. That would be great! But I´m sure I
> could get the LSI 10Gbe iScsi HBA target F/W and sdk, when they
> release the board.
all these needs time. ;)
ps, even u can get sdk and fw, will lsi allow u to developer a gpl'ed
code around it?
>
> Any comments from Mike?
he is in east coast i guess.
>
> Best regards from/Med vänliga hälsningar från
>
> Johan Kragsterman
>
> http://www.capvert.se
>
>
>
> Ming Zhang
> <mingz at ele.uri.edu>
>
> 2005-12-07 15:11
> Sänd svar till mingz
>
>
>
>
> Till:
> johan at capvert.se
> Kopia:
> Mike Christie
> <michaelc at cs.wisc.edu>,
> iscsitarget-devel at lists.sourceforge.net, stgt <stgt-devel at lists.berlios.de>, stgt-devel-admin at berlios.de, Robert Whitehead <WRWHITEHEAD at novell.com>
> Ärende:
> Re: Ang: Re:
> [Stgt-devel] Re:
> [Iscsitarget-devel]
> stgt a new
> version of iscsi
> target?
>
>
>
> my 2 cents
>
> most iscsi hba are still closed sourced, at least they only provide
> source code sdk to customers or oem developers. so it will be hard to
> integrate them unless their own engr do it.
>
> toe is not here, not in scsi domain. toe will be treated as NIC and
> use
> software iscsi target stack coming with stgt. nic is same thing here.
>
> fc/sas, or maybe old parallel scsi will integrate with stgt just like
> what qla + scst does now.
>
> i remember Mike mentioned that he is working on a qla+stgt. also lsi
> +stgt is claimed.
>
>
> ming
>
>
>
> On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 13:51 +0100, johan at capvert.se wrote:
> > Hi, Mike!
> >
> >
> > I, and I suppose a lot of other people, would like know how you look
> at the
> > HW support on the Fc side? I don´t know what you mean now, when you
> talk
> > about HW target support, if you talk iScsi HBA, TOE HBA, NIC, or Fc
> HBA, or
> > all of them. Since I´m very much on the Fc side, I´m especially
> interested
> > in your developement strategy for Fc. How is your priority list look
> like?
> >
> > Best regards from/Med vänliga hälsningar från
> >
> > Johan Kragsterman
> >
> > http://www.capvert.se
> >
> >
> >
>
> > Mike Christie
>
> > <michaelc at cs.wisc Till:
> mingz at ele.uri.edu
> > .edu> Kopia: Robert Whitehead
> <WRWHITEHEAD at novell.com>,
> > Sänt av:
> iscsitarget-devel at lists.sourceforge.net, stgt
>
> > stgt-devel-admin@
> <stgt-devel at lists.berlios.de>
>
> > berlios.de Ärende: Re: [Stgt-devel]
> Re: [Iscsitarget-devel] stgt a new version of
> > iscsi target?
>
> >
>
> > 2005-12-07 11:00
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Ming Zhang wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 10:58 -0700, Robert Whitehead wrote:
> > >
> > >>>>>>Ming Zhang <mingz at ele.uri.edu> 12/6/2005 10:32 am >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>on Tue, 2005-12-06 at 09:56 -0700, Robert Whitehead wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>>In a couple of the iscsitarget mail threads there is the
> reference
> > >>
> > >>to
> > >>
> > >>>>the new stgt implementation which is hosted on the
> > >>>>http://developer.berlios.de web site. In addition, it also
> looks
> > >>>>like the lasted source code for the IET project has been moved
> to
> > >>
> > >>an
> > >>
> > >>>>iscsitarget project hosted on the developer.berlios.de site. In
> > >>
> > >>fact
> > >>
> > >>>>doing a cvs browse on this website (sourceforge) doesn't work
> and
> > >>
> > >>in
> > >>
> > >>>>order to see the sourcecode and you have to go to the berlios
> > >>
> > >>website to
> > >>
> > >>>>get the latest iscsitarget code.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>My question is what is the future of the IET project?
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>>feature freeze and keep it stable.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>>It appears the stgt is the new direction. If so what is the
> > >>
> > >>motivation
> > >>
> > >>>>for stgt?
> > >>>>
> > >>
> > >>>stgt is a middle layer for different transports. so u can have
> iscsi,
> > >>>fc, sas,... later under same umbrella.
> > >>
> > >>>ming
> > >>
> > >>What is the time frame for having initial release of stgt?
> > >>Is it is a good state that if I download stgt and build it, will
> it
> > >>function as an iscsi target now?
> > >>
> > >>Robert
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > > i am not a stgt developer, so i could not tell u the time frame. i
> think
> > > it still need some work before it becomes as stable as iet.
> > >
> >
> > Yeah it is very unstable at the moment. We are in the middle if
> adding
> > HW target support so probably scst or IET alone if you just need
> iscsi
> > is better. We have also been trying to figure out a way to reuse
> some of
> > the block layer code for things like barriers/MSG_*, tags, requests
> and
> > queue limits etc and that is really a experiment at the moment.
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> >
> >
> >
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