[openib-general] Re: [PATCH] IB/iser: do I/O path allocations with GFP_NOIO

[Or Gerlitz]

Roland Dreier wrote:
> It's a problem because SRP and iSER are straddling both the SCSI and
> IB worlds.  Probably the best policy is to cc all relevant mailing
> lists (at least linux-scsi and openib-general) whenever there's a
> doubt about who should see something.

We are monitoring linux-scsi for tracking iscsi upstream updates.

> As far as merging patches goes, I've been merging SRP changes directly
> to Linus, except for generic fixes to <scsi/srp.h>, which I've been
> sending through James.  Or felt that iSCSI should be merged through my
> tree, but I have no problem if in the future patches bypass my tree.
> (But I would like to be cc'ed on changes to IB stuff, especially core
> things outside of specific drivers)

At this point, we prefer that iser related updates/merges would go 
through Roland, the IB maintainer, if this poses a problem for 
scsi/iscsi updates we are open to send our updates/merges via the scsi 
maintainer.

Or.