Re: [PATCH 09/14] target/configfs: Expose protection device attributes

From: Martin K. Petersen
Date: Fri Jan 10 2014 - 16:01:39 EST


>>>>> "nab" == Nicholas A Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

nab> This patch adds support for exposing DIF protection device
nab> attributes via configfs. This includes:

nab> pi_prot_type: Protection Type (0, 1, 3 currently support)
nab> pi_prot_version: Protection Version (DIF v1 currently supported)

What's DIF v2?

nab> pi_guard_type: Guard Type (1=DIF CRC, 2=IP CRC)

The IP checksum is only supported by DIX between OS and initiator, not
by the target. I guess we could signal to the initiator via a
vendor-private VPD that IP checksum is supported directly. But now what
we have hardware-accelerated T10 CRC I don't think it's a big deal.

(scsi_debug supports IP checksum because it's both initiator and
target).

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Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
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