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

[Michael Krause]

At 08:04 AM 8/19/2005, Yaron Haviv wrote:
> > -----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

Is any of this really relevant?  The focus here is open source and creating 
a RDMA infrastructure for ULP to use.  The market will decide whether a 
given technology survives or not.  It isn't up to the open source 
community.  Please take personal opinions on whether a technology will 
succeed elsewhere.

Mike 
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