[openib-general] [ANNOUNCE] Initial trunk checkin of ISERinitiator

[Yaron Haviv]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openib-general-bounces at openib.org [mailto:openib-general-
> bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Christoph Hellwig
> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 8:36 AM
> To: Dan Bar Dov
> Cc: open-iscsi at googlegroups.com; openib-general at openib.org
> Subject: Re: [openib-general] [ANNOUNCE] Initial trunk checkin of
> ISERinitiator
> 
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 03:14:05PM +0300, Dan Bar Dov wrote:
> > I just checked in a first version of iSCSI Extensions for RDMA
> > Protocol (ISER) initiator under infiniband/ulp/iser. This
> > implements the ISER datamover, a transport layer alternative to
> > TCP/IP usable by iSCSI. This ISER transport has been tested with
> > the open-iscsi opensource project, and against the Voltaire
> > Fibre-Channel Router (FCR) and Voltaire's Native-IB storage kit.
> >
> > All the iSCSI features including device management are available
> > seamlessly with the iSCSI/ISER initiator. ISER simply puts iSCSI
> > on steroids.
> >
> > The ISER implementation makes use of the openIB/kDAPL. Please note
> > that several kDAPL patches that were submitted to the list are
> > necessary for this implementation to work.
> 
> The code is complete crap, please remove it again.

Cristoph,

iSER is part of OpenIB just like any other ULP
And there needs to be a Productive process of adding it to the stack

Your feedback is valuable, but we need to get more details on what
concerns you, the iSER team is committed to address any feedback that
will be presented in this list, after all it's just an initial posting 

Yaron 

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