Re: [RFC PATCH 35/35] Add Xen virtual block device driver.

From: Mike Christie
Date: Fri Mar 24 2006 - 14:02:44 EST


Dave C Boutcher wrote:
Jeff Garzik wrote:
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 08:37 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Jeff Garzik wrote:
In fact, SCSI should make a few things easier, because the notion of host+bus topology is already present, and notion of messaging is already present, so you don't have to recreate that in a Xen block device infrastructure.
Another benefit of SCSI: when an IBM hypervisor in the Linux kernel switched to SCSI, that allowed them to replace several drivers (virt disk, virt cdrom, virt floppy?) with a single virt-SCSI driver.
but there's a generic one for that: iSCSI
so in theory you only need to provide a network driver then ;)
Talk about lots of overhead :)

OTOH, I bet that T10 is acting at high speed, right this second, to form a committee, and multiple sub-committees, to standardize SCSI transported over XenBus. SXP anyone? :)

Actually SRP (which T10 has now stopped working on) fits the bill very
nicely.


Does the IBM vscsi code/SPEC follow the SRP SPEC or is it slightly modified? We also have a SRP initiator in kernel now too. It is just not in the drivers/scsi dir.
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