On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 17:50 +1000, ronnie sahlberg wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger > <n...@linux-iscsi.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 19:20 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> Hi Nicholas, > >>
<SNIP> > > The argument that a SCSI target for virtual machines is so complex that > > it can't possibly be implemented properly in the kernel is a bunch of > > non-sense. > > There are also other benefits to NOT implement scsi emulation in the > kernel, aside from the security aspect of running large amounts of > code inside kernel context vs within restricted userspace context. > > I am very happy to be able to add emulation of new opcodes or new > features to tgtd WITHOUT having to recompile my kernel. > > We can certainly add new emulation to an in-kernel target w/o having to actually rebuild vmlinuz.. You just have to ensure that target_core_mod is being built as a loadable module. ;) --nab
