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

[Yaron Haviv]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch at lst.de]
> Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 10:22 AM
> To: Roland Dreier
> Cc: Yaron Haviv; Christoph Hellwig; Grant Grundler; 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 09:24:24PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> >     Yaron> Not every one wants to keep on doing target discovery
with
> >     Yaron> Python scripts,
> >
> > Come on, this is just a stupid statement.  The whole point of
putting
> > device management in userspace is so that everybody has the
> > flexibility to use whatever discovery mechanism they want.
> 
> And just FYI.  If you ever want an iSER implementation merged it will
> have to work the same way.  Look at how the open-iscsi TCP initator
does
> it.

Good point, the high-level functionality in iSER
is all done in Open-iSCSI and its userspace extensions
iSER just deals with the data transfer and is layered under Open-iSCSI

by the way can you point me to the iSCSI HBA that delivers better
performance, latency, and memory consumption 
and what about the price of that HBA and the attached 10GbE switch 

Yaron