[ofa-general] Announcing new open source iSER (iSCSI/RDMA) target

[Pete Wyckoff]

We are releasing code to add support for iSCSI Extensions for RDMA
(iSER) to the existing STGT user space SCSI target.  It uses
OpenFabrics libraries and kernel drivers to act as a SCSI target
over RDMA-capable devices.  The code has been tested against
the existing Linux iSER initiator over InfiniBand cards, but
should be specification compliant and work generally.

A bit of documentation is included, and a short technical report is
available at http://www.osc.edu/~pw/papers/iser-techreport.pdf .
For performance, a single SCSI client using iSCSI over gigabit
ethernet does 100 MB/s.  iSCSI over IPoIB gets 200 MB/s, and iSER
over native IB sees 500 MB/s.

More information on STGT is available at http://stgt.berlios.de .

The seven iSER patches can be downloaded from:

	git://git.osc.edu/tgt

or browsed at:

	http://git.osc.edu/?p=tgt.git;a=summary

New and modified files are distributed under a GPLv2 license.  I'll
submit individual patches to stgt-devel for review and eventual
inclusion in STGT.

		-- Pete