[openib-general] [ANNOUNCE] Initial trunk checkin of ISER initiator

[Dmitry Yusupov]

Dan,

I'm in the process of reviewing your patches. So far, some code could be
accepted, but some still needs additional work.

The most serious concern is that your patches forcing Open iSCSI to
open/close IB connection in-kernel, while the TCP connection terminated
in user-space. This is not really what we wanted.

The solution could be to provide set of kernel patches to do this job in
user-space for IB connection also.

Dima  

On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 15:14 +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.
> 
> 
> Dan Bar Dov
> Infiniband Storage Solutions
> www.voltaire.com
> The Grid Interconnect Company
>