>except that in iscsi a big chunk of the access patterns are *external*; >eg the real smarts are on that other machine on the network, not in the >iscsi server.
We strayed a little from the topic; I don't claim that a private user-space cache is better than the page cache for an ISCSI server. My only point is that some of the reasons given for the kernel being a better place for ISCSI server code than user space are reasons only if you use assume using the page cache in both cases. Of course, one can always argue first that the page cache is better for an ISCSI server than any other kind of cache, and therefore that the kernel is a better place than user space for the server code. We just hadn't gone there yet. -- Bryan Henderson San Jose California IBM Almaden Research Center Filesystems - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
