Re: IP/ethernet/networking-over-SCSI.

2005-01-25 Thread alex
FC2143 that specifies a packet format for crazy people who want to do this. Few benefits of those that could be thought - u320 scsi is essentially 3gbps of bandwidth. SCSI has natural support for jumbo packets - SCSI packet can be 256kbytes in size. -alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: How to get the number of VFs assigned to the guests in XEN

2014-08-20 Thread Alex Williamson
ignment and primarily as a workaround for not using an actual host-based device driver to manage device ownership. When using VFIO-based device assignment with KVM, pci_vfs_assigned() is not updated. Please don't rely on this interface. Thanks, Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send th

Re: How to get the number of VFs assigned to the guests in XEN

2014-08-20 Thread Alex Williamson
On Wed, 2014-08-20 at 19:14 +0530, Sreekanth Reddy wrote: > Thanks Alex, > > Then, Is there any other ways to stop accidental unload of PF driver > while still some VFs are accessing by the running VMs. I believe the reason pci_vfs_assigned() and the pci_dev flag that backs it exist

Re: [PATCH 4/4] target: Add a user-passthrough backstore

2014-09-19 Thread Alex Elsayed
Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > So the idea of allowing the in-kernel CDB emulation to run after > user-space has returned unsupported opcode is problematic for a couple > of different reasons. > > First, if the correct feature bits in standard INQUIRY + EVPD INQUIRY, > etc are not populated by u

Re: [PATCH 4/4] target: Add a user-passthrough backstore

2014-09-19 Thread Alex Elsayed
Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > On Fri, 2014-09-19 at 14:43 -0700, Alex Elsayed wrote: >> Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: >> >> >> > So the idea of allowing the in-kernel CDB emulation to run after >> > user-space has returned unsupported opcode is problematic

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2013-09-19 Thread Alex Nguyen
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Re: [PATCH 00/11] First pass at merging Bart's HA work

2012-12-06 Thread Alex Turin
case we don't have duplicate hosts or targets. We are working with a single SCSI disk. To make scsi_remove_host hang we simply disabling a IB port and run "dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null count=1". Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi"

Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] LIO/SCST Merger

2016-01-31 Thread Alex Gorbachev
SCST. I hope the great work you guys are doing is able to complement each other and result in powerful solutions that will allow us, Mission Critical users, designers and integrators, to offer a truly competitive options to large box SANs. What you are doing makes a difference every day. -- Alex

Re: [PATCH 3.15 099/139] libiscsi, iser: Adjust data_length to include protection information

2014-07-02 Thread Alex Williamson
On Wed, 2014-07-02 at 17:44 -0500, Mike Christie wrote: > On 07/02/2014 05:15 PM, Alex Williamson wrote: > > On Sat, 2014-06-28 at 10:47 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > >> > 3.15-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, pleas

Re: [PATCH 3.15 099/139] libiscsi, iser: Adjust data_length to include protection information

2014-07-02 Thread Alex Williamson
On Wed, 2014-07-02 at 15:52 -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > On Wed, 2014-07-02 at 17:44 -0500, Mike Christie wrote: > > On 07/02/2014 05:15 PM, Alex Williamson wrote: > > > On Sat, 2014-06-28 at 10:47 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > >> > 3.15-stable review pat

Re: [RFC 1/2] target: Add documentation on the target userspace pass-through driver

2014-07-05 Thread Alex Elsayed
Reply inline, with a good bit of snipping done (posting via gmane, so quote/content ratio is an issue). Andy Grover wrote: > +These backstores cover the most common use cases, but not all. One new > +use case that other non-kernel target solutions, such as tgt, are able > +to support is using Gl

Problem: NULL pointer dereference when disconnecting SAS expander-expander link

2007-07-07 Thread Alex Winawer
at /proc/mpt/summary ioc0: LSISAS1068E, FwRev=0112h, Ports=1, MaxQ=511, IRQ=19 ioc1: LSISAS1064, FwRev=01102800h, Ports=1, MaxQ=511, IRQ=58 I will continue to investigate and will report any findings but any help in resolving the issue would be greatly appreciated. -- Alex Winawer, Unix Systems Pr

Re: [PATCH] scsi: associate bio write hint with WRITE CDB

2019-01-10 Thread Alex Lemberg
Hi Randall, On Fri, 2019-01-04 at 13:22 +0800, Randall Huang wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 11:57:38PM -0500, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > > > > Ewan, > > > > > SBC-5 says that support for the grouping function is indicated by the > > > GROUP_SUP bit in the Extended Inquiry VPD page (86h). I'm

rescan-scsi-bus causes arcmsr death

2018-02-09 Thread Alex Richman
where the entire system hangs just before the arcmsr abort errors show up in the logs. - Previously (and out in the field) we have LVM in the storage stack (BD -> LVM -> XFS), but we've also replicated this with just XFS (or EXT4) directly on the BD. Any ideas? Many thanks, - Alex. -- Alex Richman ale...@gblabs.co.uk

Re: [ANNOUNCE] target-pending tree updated to v3.6-rc2

2012-08-17 Thread Alex Elsayed
not debugging > > 101998f6 tcm_vhost: Post-merge review changes requested by MST > > f0e0e9bb tcm_vhost: Fix incorrect IS_ERR() usage in > > vhost_scsi_map_iov_to_sgl > Whoops.. Missed one extra target/pscsi regression bug-fix reported > recently by Alex Elsayed (CC'ed) that has just been push

[PATCH] scsi: mpt2sas: Fix spelling.

2014-11-06 Thread Alex Pilon
Fix 'ioctl' spelling. Signed-off-by: Alex Pilon --- drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_ctl.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_ctl.h b/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_ctl.h index fa0567c..7f842c8 100644 --- a/drivers/sc

[BUG] kzalloc overflow in lpfc driver on 6k core system

2014-12-02 Thread Alex Thorlton
. Does anyone have any ideas on what could be done to break that allocation up into smaller pieces, or to make it in a different way so that we avoid this warning? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! - Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi&

Re: [BUG] kzalloc overflow in lpfc driver on 6k core system

2014-12-03 Thread Alex Thorlton
;t heard from them. I like this approach and don't mind implementing it myself, but I'd like to confirm that whoever would be responsible for merging the code is ok with the change before going forward. Of course, if the code has been orphaned, then I guess we just write away :) Thanks

Re: [BUG] kzalloc overflow in lpfc driver on 6k core system

2014-12-08 Thread Alex Thorlton
e to look at this later this week. Please let me know if somebody over there gets around to looking at it - no need to have two groups chasing the same issue :) Thanks again! - Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of

Re: Block-level access

2016-09-01 Thread Alex Austin
CC'ing linux-scsi and linux-block. Also, please CC me in replies. On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Alex Austin wrote: > Hello, > What is the most performant way to directly interface with an attached hard > drive? I've so far used read()/write() on /dev/sd_ but I

Re: Block-level access

2016-09-02 Thread Alex Austin
n Assche wrote: > On 09/01/2016 02:48 PM, Alex Austin wrote: >> >> CC'ing linux-scsi and linux-block. >> >> Also, please CC me in replies. >> >> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Alex Austin >> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> Wha

Re: [PATCH 4/6] vfio_pci: use pci_irq_allocate_vectors

2016-09-29 Thread Alex Williamson
ci/vfio_pci_private.h | 1 - > 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-) Sorry for the delay, slipped by me. Overall a really nice cleanup. One tiny nit, the commit log mis-names the function as pci_irq_allocate_vectors instead of pci_alloc_irq_vectors. With that, Acked-by: Alex Wil

Re: [PATCH 4/6] vfio_pci: use pci_irq_allocate_vectors

2016-09-29 Thread Alex Williamson
On Thu, 29 Sep 2016 21:24:04 +0200 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 01:21:01PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: > > Sorry for the delay, slipped by me. Overall a really nice cleanup. > > One tiny nit, the commit log mis-names the function as > > pci_irq_all

Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] Add ufs provisioning support in driver

2018-05-27 Thread Alex Lemberg
ve we need to consider adding more generic infrastructure for all UFS device management functionality, and try to prevent implementing them one by one separately - this could cause a lot of mess in UFS driver code. Thanks, Alex On 5/25/18, 5:09 PM, "linux-scsi-ow...@vger.kernel.org on behalf

Re: [trivial PATCH] treewide: Align function definition open/close braces

2017-12-18 Thread Alex Deucher
, but it applies against Linus' tree > with a couple offsets) > > arch/x86/include/asm/atomic64_32.h | 2 +- > drivers/acpi/custom_method.c | 2 +- > drivers/acpi/fan.c | 2 +- > drivers/gpu/drm/amd/displ

[ANNOUNCE 0/6] Open-iSCSI High-Performance Initiator for Linux

2005-03-06 Thread Alex Aizman
insightful questions. Regards, Alex Aizman & Dmitry Yusupov = The following 6 patches alltogether represent the Open-iSCSI Initiator: Patch 1: SCSI LLDD consists of 3 files: - iscsi_if.c (iSCSI open interface over netlink); - iscsi_tcp.[ch] (iSC

[ANNOUNCE 2/6] Open-iSCSI High-Performance Initiator for Linux

2005-03-06 Thread Alex Aizman
Common header files: - iscsi_ifev.h (user/kernel events). - iscsi_if.h (iSCSI open interface over netlink); - iscsi_proto.h (RFC3720 #defines and types); Signed-off-by: Alex Aizman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Yusupov &

[ANNOUNCE 3/6] Open-iSCSI High-Performance Initiator for Linux

2005-03-06 Thread Alex Aizman
drivers/scsi/Kconfig changes. Signed-off-by: Alex Aizman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Yusupov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -Nru --exclude 'iscsi*' --exclude Makefile linux-2.6.11.orig/drivers/scsi/Kconfig linux-2.6.11.dima/drivers/

[ANNOUNCE 4/6] Open-iSCSI High-Performance Initiator for Linux

2005-03-06 Thread Alex Aizman
drivers/scsi/Makefile changes. Signed-off-by: Alex Aizman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Yusupov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.11.orig/drivers/scsi/Makefile 2005-03-01 23:38:19.0 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.11.dima/drivers/scsi/Makef

[ANNOUNCE 6/6] Open-iSCSI High-Performance Initiator for Linux

2005-03-06 Thread Alex Aizman
Documentation/scsi/iscsi.txt Signed-off-by: Alex Aizman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Yusupov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -Nru linux-2.6.11.orig/Documentation/scsi/iscsi.txt linux-2.6.11.dima/Documentation/scsi/iscsi.txt --- linux-2.6.11.orig/D

[ANNOUNCE 5/6] Open-iSCSI High-Performance Initiator for Linux

2005-03-06 Thread Alex Aizman
include/linux/netlink.h changes (added new protocol NETLINK_ISCSI) Signed-off-by: Alex Aizman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Yusupov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.11.orig/include/linux/netlink.h 2005-03-01 23:38:25.0 -0800 +++

Re: [ANNOUNCE 0/6] Open-iSCSI High-Performance Initiator for Linux

2005-03-08 Thread Alex Aizman
what network hardware and drives, please? Neterion's 10GbE adapters. RAM disk on the target side. Alex - 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

Re: [ANNOUNCE 0/6] Open-iSCSI High-Performance Initiator for Linux

2005-03-08 Thread Alex Aizman
Matt Mackall wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 09:51:39PM -0800, Alex Aizman wrote: Matt Mackall wrote: How big is the userspace client? Hmm.. x86 executable? source? Anyway, there's about 12,000 lines of user space code, and growing. In the kernel we have approx. 3,300

Re: [ANNOUNCE 0/6] Open-iSCSI High-Performance Initiator for Linux

2005-03-09 Thread Alex Aizman
San Jose California IBM Almaden Research Center Filesystems Alex - 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

Re: [ANNOUNCE 0/6] Open-iSCSI High-Performance Initiator for Linux

2005-03-09 Thread Alex Aizman
Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: On 2005-03-08T22:25:29, Alex Aizman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There's (or at least was up until today) an ongoing discussion on our mailing list at http://groups-beta.google.com/group/open-iscsi. The short and long of it: the problem can be solved,

[ANNOUNCE 0/6] Linux-iSCSI High-Performance Initiator

2005-04-11 Thread Alex Aizman
ucture * receive pool for control PDU's per-connection added * using predefined macro for max_sg SG_ALL * kernel IPC transport header file added * picking unique OUI ISID for the same target based on session's SID Regards, Alex Aizman & Dmitry Yusupov - To unsubscribe from this list: se

[ANNOUNCE 2/6] Linux-iSCSI High-Performance Initiator

2005-04-11 Thread Alex Aizman
Common header files: - iscsi_ifev.h (user/kernel events). - iscsi_if.h (user/kernel #defines); - iscsi_iftrans.h (iscsi transport interface); - iscsi_proto.h (RFC3720 #defines and types). Signed-off-by: Alex Aizman

[ANNOUNCE 3/6] Linux-iSCSI High-Performance Initiator

2005-04-11 Thread Alex Aizman
drivers/scsi/Kconfig changes. Signed-off-by: Alex Aizman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Yusupov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -Nru --exclude 'iscsi*' --exclude Makefile linux-2.6.12-rc2.orig/drivers/scsi/Kconfig linux-2

[ANNOUNCE 4/6] Linux-iSCSI High-Performance Initiator

2005-04-11 Thread Alex Aizman
drivers/scsi/Makefile changes (added iscsi_if and iscsi_tcp). Signed-off-by: Alex Aizman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Yusupov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12-rc2.orig/drivers/scsi/Makefile 2005-03-01 23:38:19.0 -08

[ANNOUNCE 5/6] Linux-iSCSI High-Performance Initiator

2005-04-11 Thread Alex Aizman
include/linux/netlink.h changes (added NETLINK_ISCSI) Signed-off-by: Alex Aizman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Yusupov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.12-rc2.orig/include/linux/netlink.h 2005-03-01 23:38:25.0 -08

[ANNOUNCE 6/6] Linux-iSCSI High-Performance Initiator

2005-04-11 Thread Alex Aizman
Documentation/scsi/iscsi.txt Signed-off-by: Alex Aizman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Yusupov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -Nru linux-2.6.12-rc2.orig/Documentation/scsi/iscsi.txt linux-2.6.12-rc2.dima/Documentation/scsi/iscsi.txt ---

[ANNOUNCE 1b/6] Linux-iSCSI High-Performance Initiator

2005-04-12 Thread Alex Aizman
DD, the 2nd part: - iscsi_if.c (iSCSI open interface over netlink, iSCSI generic transport module). Signed-off-by: Alex Aizman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Yusupov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -Nru --exclude Kconfig --exclude Makefile linux-2.6.12-rc2.orig/dr

Re: [ANNOUNCE 0/7] Open-iSCSI/Linux-iSCSI-5 High-Performance Initiator

2005-07-30 Thread Alex Aizman
James Bottomley wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 13:08 -0700, Alex Aizman wrote: This is open-iscsi/linux-iscsi-5 Initiator. This submission is ready for inclusion into mainline kernel. OK, I tried to put this into scsi-misc. FIB has taken your netlink number, so I changed it to 32 OK

[ANNOUNCE 0/7] open-iscsi/linux-iscsi-5 Initiator

2005-08-04 Thread Alex Aizman
Open-iSCSI/Linux-iSCSI-5 Initiator: Data Path and Transport Class == This submission contains 7 patches for 2.6.13 (today's git repository). The same 7 patches can be downloaded at: http://www.open-iscsi.org/bits/submission-08042005/ This submission co

[ANNOUNCE 2/7] open-iscsi/linux-iscsi-5 Initiator: open-iscsi-tcp.h.patch

2005-08-04 Thread Alex Aizman
open-iscsi-tcp.h.patch - drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.h, header file. Signed-off-by: Alex Aizman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Yusupov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/iscsi_tc

[ANNOUNCE 3/7] open-iscsi/linux-iscsi-5 Initiator: open-iscsi-headers.patch

2005-08-04 Thread Alex Aizman
open-iscsi-headers.patch - common header files: - iscsi_if.h (user/kernel #defines and user/kernel events); - iscsi_proto.h (RFC3720 #defines and types); - scsi_transport_iscsi.h (transport API, transport #defines and types). Signed-off-by: Alex Aizman

[ANNOUNCE 4/7] open-iscsi/linux-iscsi-5 Initiator: open-iscsi-netlink.patch

2005-08-04 Thread Alex Aizman
open-iscsi-netlink.patch - include/linux/netlink.h changes (added NETLINK_ISCSI). Signed-off-by: Alex Aizman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Yusupov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --g

[ANNOUNCE 6/7] open-iscsi/linux-iscsi-5 Initiator: open-iscsi-transport.patch

2005-08-04 Thread Alex Aizman
open-iscsi-transport.patch - iscsi transport class (drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c) Signed-off-by: Alex Aizman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Yusupov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --