Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] vhost-scsi: Add support for host virtualized target

[Anthony Liguori]

"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi MST & Co,
>
> On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 18:43 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 06:48:14AM +0000, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
>> > From: Nicholas Bellinger <address@hidden>
>> > 
>> > Hello Anthony & Co,
>> > 
>> > This is the fourth installment to add host virtualized target support for
>> > the mainline tcm_vhost fabric driver using Linux v3.6-rc into QEMU 
>> > 1.3.0-rc.
>> > 
>> > The series is available directly from the following git branch:
>> > 
>> >    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/nab/qemu-kvm.git 
>> > vhost-scsi-for-1.3
>> > 
>> > Note the code is cut against yesterday's QEMU head, and dispite the name
>> > of the tree is based upon mainline qemu.org git code + has thus far been
>> > running overnight with > 100K IOPs small block 4k workloads using v3.6-rc2+
>> > based target code with RAMDISK_DR backstores.
>> > 
>> > Other than some minor fuzz between jumping from QEMU 1.2.0 -> 1.2.50, this
>> > series is functionally identical to what's been posted for vhost-scsi 
>> > RFC-v3
>> > to qemu-devel.
>> > 
>> > Please consider applying these patches for an initial vhost-scsi merge into
>> > QEMU 1.3.0-rc code, or let us know what else you'd like to see addressed 
>> > for
>> > this series to in order to merge.
>> > 
>> > Thank you!
>> > 
>> > --nab
>> 
>> OK what's the status here?
>> We missed 1.3 but let's try not to miss 1.4?
>> 
>
> Unfortunately, I've not been able to get back to the conversion
> requested by Paolo for a standalone vhost-scsi PCI device.

Is your git repo above up to date?  Perhaps I can find someone to help
out..

> At this point my hands are still full with iSER-target for-3.9 kernel
> code over the next weeks.  
>
> What's the v1.4 feature cut-off looking like at this point..?

Hard freeze is on february 1st but 1.5 opens up again on the 15th.  So
the release windows shouldn't have a major impact on merging...

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> --nab
>
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